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Faith at Work: The Difference ‘Calling’ Can Make

“The line between our work lives and personal lives has blurred,” observes the authors of Religion in a Changing Workplace. “Religious employees in the United States—in all types of occupations and sectors—feel more comfortable expressing their faith in the workplace and less comfortable leaving their faith behind when they go to work.” Continue Reading...

The Summer of 1940 and the Fate of Western Civilization

There have been pivotal battles that, had they gone another way, would have changed the direction of Western history: John Sobieski’s victory over the Ottoman Empire at the gates of Vienna, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, Washington’s stand at Valley Forge, Wellington’s triumph at Waterloo, but none was as critical for the fate of Western civilization as the events that transpired over the summer and early fall of 1940. Continue Reading...

America’s New ‘Reshoring’ Policy: A Warning from Hungary

When Donald Trump campaigned on the grand promise to bring blue-collar manufacturing jobs back to the United States, I knew I had seen and heard this before. As a former Hungarian Member of Parliament from a small town, mainly boasting factories with assembly lines that serve car manufacturers, I had seen how this brand of campaign rhetoric serves only a short-term political interest but does not serve the country’s future. Continue Reading...

Pope 267: The Guessing Game

The excitement in Rome is palpable about who’s papabile as the historic conclave that will elect the 267th successor to Peter gets underway. A first fumata nera (black smoke) has blown barely visible at twilight above the Sistine Chapel, ensuring long nights of ongoing debate at the many restaurants immediately adjacent to the Vatican. Continue Reading...

What Is Marriage?

In 2014, Anthony Esolen published Defending Marriage, responding to the effort to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples. In it, he argues that the fight over redefining marriage was lost long before this specific policy battle, when we began to lose sight of marriage as a permanent, exclusive, fruitful bond between husband and wife. Continue Reading...

Darkness into Light: An Interview with Andrew Klavan

Andrew Klavan is an award-winning crime novelist, screenwriter, and media commentator. A two-time Edgar Award winner, he also hosts The Andrew Klavan Show, a popular podcast on DailyWire.com. His film work includes A Shock to the System (starring Michael Caine), True Crime (starring and directed by Clint Eastwood), Don’t Say a Word (starring Michael Douglas), and Gosnell (starring Dean Cain and Earl Billings). Continue Reading...