Arguably the Iran War is America’s first post-Christian war, heralded with brutalist rhetoric, not a moral vision. The problem is not so much “bad theology,” but no theology.

Setting aside damage caused by Trump’s attempts to coerce Denmark into surrendering Greenland, one bright side has been a newly heightened awareness of the arctic for NATO security

Contra those opponents of the conflict who claim that it is a product of religious, civilizational, or foreign influence, the war is directly in line with America’s core national interests

Through a combination of technological precision, geographic removal, and a limited segment of the population engaged in military service, most Americans have become highly insulated from the tragic realities of war

What does Christian realism have to say about competition with China for economically critical rare earth minerals?

The decisive strategic question in Iran is whether the regime’s will to survive can outlast Trump’s determination to bring about regime change

Paul Miller’s new book “Choosing Defeat” spares no party, neither in the military nor the political establishment, in his assessment of how Afghanistan was lost

Today’s Christian nationalists identify real problems, but their prescriptions ignore the religious diversity of modern America that figures like Chuck Colson and Richard John Neuhaus sought to navigate through their ecumenical conservatism.

Bullying allies, threatening Greenland, and emboldening Moscow are not statesmanship. America’s recent foreign policy risks undermining the very order it once led.

Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy both predicts American decline and then works to accelerate it by walking away from the network of allies the US needs to sustain its hegemony