The Road to Martyrdom
It is difficult to look back at 2020 without concern for religious liberty. In the first few months of the pandemic, communal worship was prohibited and, in many places, churches still face severe restrictions on gathering and worshipping. At their core, these developments reveal that many governing authorities either view religion as a threat or, worse, as a ‘non-essential’ activity…
Thomas Howard (1935-2020)
Tom Howard is dead, and the tributes have been pouring in. I don’t want to repeat the story of his…
The Grassroots Way
“Measure the self with the self, the family with the family, the neighborhood with the neighborhood, the country with the country, and the world with the world.” We read this in Chapter 54 of the classic Chinese text, the Daodejing — often misunderstood as a metaphysical treatise on methods of self-improvement but better understood as a work of political philosophy.
Power and Purity: The Unholy Marriage that Spawned America’s Social Justice Warriors
Mark T. Mitchell
Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2020
Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization
Samuel Gregg
Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2019
Sardinha & Portuguese Traditionalism
It was the spring of 1913, and the republican political elites in Portugal were getting restless. They had established their…
When Cancel Culture ‘Gets Real’
The freedom to say only things that do not offend is not a freedom worth having. While the German media…
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The Patriotism of St. John Paul II
Barely nine months after being elected pope, John Paul II embarked on his first journey back to his homeland —…
Patriotism & National Identity
Ethnic identity and national identity are two principles that have always sat uncomfortably together in my life. I was born…
Blessed Charles of Austria: A Holy Emperor and His Legacy
Charles Coulombe
Gastonia, N.C.: TAN Books, 2020
‘Oikos’ & Sweden’s Conservative Revival
Earlier this year, a new conservative think-tank was launched in Sweden with the name of Oikos, which means ‘home’ in…