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Reinhold Niebuhr & India’s Tragic Choice in Afghanistan

India’s outreach to the Taliban since 2021 reflects the tragic decisions all nations must face between bad and worse actors

Edmund Walsh: Catholicism’s Foremost Geopolitical Thinker of the 20th Century

Edmund Walsh’s legacy endures as a fusion of moral conviction and strategic vision, equipping the free world to confront godless tyranny with clarity, courage, and resolve

80 Years After WWII, Americans Still Benefit from the Victory

The US-led international order has delivered immense benefits to America and the world by ensuring a degree of global stability. Today, we must work to defend, restore, and strengthen the Pax Americana.

Episode 92 | Is America Betraying Middle East Christians?

The Provcast team interview Rich Ghazal, Executive Director of In Defense of Christians, to discuss the question of Christian persecution as it relates to US foreign policy

A Shepherd of Ghosts

Retired chaplain Timothy Mallard reflects on the exorcizing the ghosts of war through liturgy, sacrament, and prayer on Memorial Day

From Neocons to Nat Cons: The Shifting Editorial Positions at First Things

First Things is arguably the most important religious publication in America today, but under R.R. Reno it has sharply diverged from the views of its founder Richard John Neuhaus

Was Jesus a Pacifist?
The Holy Week Reader—Monday: A Savior Who Overturns Tables

The cleansing of the temple reveals the character of our Messiah and is a model for those who would follow him.

To the Contrary: John Brown Was Not a Christian Nationalist

John Brown was no Christian nationalist

The Christian Realism of Peggy Noonan

Peggy Noonan’s “A Certain Sense of America” captures the political contradictions and controversies that have characterized the last decade as few other books have

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