“When I say we have no greater friends than Christian supporters of Israel, I know you’ve always stood with us,” declared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to an evangelical audience in Washington, D.C., Continue Reading...
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December 12, 2024
The Jerusalem Passage: A Sci-Fi Pilgrimage
The Hospitaller priest gave a blessing, then turned to the deacon who said, “The Mass is ended.
Let us go there now and die with Him.”
Such are the words that mark the beginning of Janusz’s pilgrimage. Continue Reading...
December 11, 2024
Treating Family like Royalty
Many years ago, an acquaintance of my wife’s and mine married a Habsburg. She was not of noble stock—just a good ol’ American girl whose beauty piqued the interest of a European archduke during a visit to the states. Continue Reading...
December 10, 2024
The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny
On February 16, 2024, Alexei Navalny died under mysterious circumstances in the remote Siberian penal colony to which he was moved in late 2023. Founder and leader of the Anti- Corruption Foundation, Navalny was a long-time dissident and one of the most vocal critics of Putin’s regime over the past two decades, so his suspicious death was no surprise to anyone remotely acquainted with contemporary Russian politics. Continue Reading...
December 06, 2024
Archbishop’s Resignation Exposes Church of England Fault Lines
The resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, following the damning Makin Report into the heinous crimes of serial abuser John Smyth, whose severe beatings of students from as far back as the 1980s, exposes problems within the Church of England that point to long-standing doctrinal, disciplinary, and cultural issues that will both determine who takes his place and how the church has come to this sorry pass. Continue Reading...
December 05, 2024
Surely Jim Abrahams, Film-Comedy Genius, Rests in Peace
Just before Thanksgiving, writer-director Jim Abrahams died at the age of 80. He was the A in ZAZ—the most prolific comedic team of the 1980s, the Zs being his school friends, the Zucker brothers, David and Jerry. Continue Reading...
December 04, 2024
A Good Troublemaker: Jimmy Lai’s Story of Hardship and Heroism
“For them, I am a troublemaker. It is hard for them not to clamp down on me and silence me.” On August 10, 2020, Jimmy Lai, entrepreneur and media mogul, was arrested in the wake of the crackdown on the pro-democracy protests that engulfed Hong Kong. Continue Reading...
December 03, 2024
The Long Financial Shadow of 2008
If you ask most people today what caused the 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent “Great Recession,” my suspicion is that the answer would be something like “untrammeled and unregulated financial markets.” Continue Reading...
November 27, 2024
How Trade Saved the Pilgrims, and the U.S.
By now the Pilgrims’ disastrous experiment with collectivism in Plymouth, Massachusetts, is well-known, in free market circles if not among the young. The story has been printed and popularized – Rush Limbaugh even recites it annually on his radio program. Continue Reading...
November 26, 2024
Christianity Against Power-Worship
All modern politics is a clash of totalizing ideologies seeking absolute power. Or at least it seems that way. Christians sometimes find themselves caught in the middle of these culture wars, stuck trying to find compromises between competing goods. Continue Reading...
