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A Trail of Tears: When Reason Failed

November, Native American History Month, will rightly bring out remonstrations against the injustices of the 1830s, but to understand what happened we should start with the Proclamation Line of 1763, a British attempt to separate American colonists (who would live east of the Appalachians) and Native Americans (told to stay west). Continue Reading...

Can Nigeria’s Church Survive the Storm?

Nigeria’s Christian community was long thought to be a place of promise. Its churches have been engines of education, charity, and civic formation. Its believers have been pastors, teachers, entrepreneurs, and peacemakers. Continue Reading...

Dilexi Te and Loving the Poor

Pope Leo XIV’s first major proclamation, Dilexi Te (I Have Loved You), is an apostolic exhortation addressed “to all Christians” on caring for the poor. Pope Francis was preparing this exhortation when he died. Continue Reading...

From Her to Here: Can Tech Cure Loneliness?

Recently, Sam Altman announced that OpenAI is considering allowing more personal—and even erotic—content for adult users, which reignited a broader conversation about the future of artificial intelligence. This might remind you of Her, the 2013 film in which a lonely man falls in love with his operating system. Continue Reading...

Our Philo-Semitic History

To hold in one’s hands a book like Josh Hammer’s Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish State and the Destiny of the West is the kind of privilege that comes with residency in the civilized West. Continue Reading...

Aren’t Nobel Winners Supposed to Be Living?

We live in an amazing time. As David Kotter recently noted in The Washington Times, we have flipped “extreme global poverty” in just the past 250 years: When the USA was founded, roughly 90% of earth’s population lived in—by today’s standards—extreme poverty. Continue Reading...