A profoundly violent, sublimely beautiful film

Patriotism, nationalism, and jingoism are individually important terms that do discreet, if sometimes overlapping work. I’m just not entirely sure how.

The greatest threat we face is our unwillingness to face them

Nominated this week for six Oscars, Mel Gibson’s Desmond Doss biopic is an extraordinary testimony to extraordinary valor

75 years ago, fifteen well-educated men met in Berlin to talk murder

The perpetuation of our national institutions does not automatically–nor cheaply

75 years ago Reinhold Niebuhr rejoiced that America had finally resolved to do her duty

In the Christian view, the normative grounding from which the tradition of just war casuistry springs is the dominical command to love.

The visit to Pearl Harbor was, arguably, incomplete. Nevertheless, proves again the extraordinary.