Reinhold Niebuhr, an inspiration for this journal, was a Christian Realist who renounced Social Gospel utopianism in favor of firmly…
Mark TooleyApril 21, 2019
Many Omar supporters have joined in denouncing Abrams as an accomplice to “death squads and genocidal massacres” in Central America during the 1980s. These critics seem oddly uninterested in challenging the Venezuelan socialist dictatorship that is literally strangling a once prospering and free nation.
Mark TooleyFebruary 14, 2019
Confessed Soviet spy Morton Sobell died in December, age 101. He was the last surviving major participant in the atomic…
Mark TooleyFebruary 4, 2019
In the West, the church has often defined itself by defying the state. In the East, particularly Russia, the church…
Mark TooleyJanuary 28, 2019
There is typically too little reference to the civil rights martyr’s Cold War role. He delivered two important Cold War…
Mark TooleyJanuary 21, 2019
Amid debate and the ongoing federal government partial shutdown over funding for border security and wall construction, two very different…
Mark TooleyJanuary 16, 2019
During the Christmas season many inevitably again watched “It’s a Wonderful Life,” in which Jimmy Stewart as a suicidal George…
Mark TooleyJanuary 2, 2019
As Americans become less demographically European, will American foreign policy focus less on traditional European allies?
Mark TooleyDecember 20, 2018
Modern dramas like The Favourite darkly portray statecraft as merely cynical self-serving manipulation. But governments, nations, and public officials are not outside God’s grace. They are, despite the rebellious spirits of this world, ultimately instruments of His providence. Queen Anne and the Marlboroughs likely knew their role in this celestial drama.
Mark TooleyDecember 17, 2018