America’s Founding

Antietam & the Moral Clarity of the Emancipation Proclamation

This week marks the anniversary of the bloodiest day in American history. In September 1862, at small town in western Maryland, nearly 23,000 young Americans were killed or wounded.

Why We Must Fight the Demise of the Essay

Without the widespread ability to cogently express important ideas, none of the most important leaders of the last few hundred years would ever have been so influential

Lincoln’s Bishop: Review of Zaakir Tameez’s “Charles Sumner”

A new biography of famed abolitionist Charles Sumner highlights his constitutional legacy and connections to the Black community, two factors of his life too long overlooked

Ep. 94 | What We Mean by ‘Judeo-Christian’

On June 30th, Providence and Tikvah partnered to convene a panel titled “What We Mean by ‘Judeo-Christian'”

Our Cause is Just and Our Union is Perfect: Recognizing the 250th Anniversary of the Other Declaration

Before there was the Declaration of Independence in 1776, there was the “Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms” in 1775, which set America on its eventual course for revolution

The Whig Case for Toryism

American conservatives can learn from our Tory forerunners the importance of reverence and order, realism and romance, and ultimately the poetry that is the soul of our civilization

Foreign Policy ProvCast, Episode 85 | Early America: Christian Republic—or Republic of Christians?

In his recent book “Religion and Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War” (Davenant, 2024), Miles Smith…

The Demagogue and the Statesman

Both the demagogue and the statesman use rhetoric to sway public opinion, but only the latter does so with the nation’s best interests at heart

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The Holy Week Reader—Friday: Kavod! The Weight of Glory

Peter Paul Ruben’s extraordinary “Raising of the Cross” helps reflect on Divine love, human flourishing, and the weight of glory.

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