Latest Posts

January 07, 2026

His Stylus Was Mightier Than His Sword

Sometime in the late 340s B.C. in Athens, a feud between two powerful men, Apollodoros and Stephanos, culminated in the last of a series of lawsuits that the two had been bringing against each other for the better part of a decade. Continue Reading...
January 02, 2026

Beijing’s Battle Against God and the Chinese People

The grander a dictator’s ambitions, the more likely he is to see religion as a threat. So it is with Xi Jinping, who has ruled the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with increasing ruthlessness since November 2012, when he became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Continue Reading...
December 31, 2025

The Human Heart of the Little Tramp

A hundred years ago, Charlie Chaplin brought out The Gold Rush, an incredibly famous and influential silent movie that has won the praise of countless artists since. Comedy on screen asserted its rights, as did artists. Continue Reading...
December 30, 2025

St. Augustine: Out of Africa

Quite a number of years ago, it was estimated that every year there are some 500 articles and monographs, both popular and scholarly, written throughout the world on the North African pastor-theologian-saint Augustine (354‒430). Continue Reading...
December 29, 2025

Is America Simply Jefferson vs. Hamilton?

Herbert Butterfield in his The Whig Interpretation of History argued that assessing the past in light of the present, what we call “presentism,” is the source of all historical errors. Our tendency to do so results from a very real problem: How do we impose some sort of narrative order on the complex, disparate, and voluminous material presented in historical reflection? Continue Reading...
December 24, 2025

Christmas Is God Brought Near

A perennial theme of modern holiday classics, from the ridiculous Jingle All the Way to the sublime A Charlie Brown Christmas, is the conspicuous absence of the Christmas spirit during Christmas season. Continue Reading...
December 23, 2025

A Book That Will Shock You

Dr. Michael Pakaluk, a philosopher and professor at the Catholic University of America, has written 11 books, but somehow this was the first to make it into my hands. Pakaluk is a bit of a legend in certain circles. Continue Reading...