History

God’s Providence at the Greatest Battle of the American Revolution—250 Years Later

The Battle of Long Island on August 27, 1776, was the closest the Continental Army came to total destruction. That they lived to fight another day is a testament to God’s Providence and Washington’s skill as a general

Should Christians Fight Culture Wars?: Review of Nigel Biggar’s “The New Dark Age”

Nigel Biggar’s latest book is entitled “The New Dark Age: Why Liberals Must Win the Culture Wars,” but its subtitle might as well be “Why Christians Must Win the Culture Wars”

Lindsey Graham’s Scot-Irish Internationalism

Lindsey Graham was an inheritor of the Scot-Irish tradition in foreign policy, historically driven by a hatred of spiritual and political tyranny

Two Revolutions, Two Constitutions: Constitutionalism in Britain and its Dominions After the American Revolution

The American and British constitutions share a common heritage but diverge sharply in method: one protects liberty through constitutional design, the other through constitutional evolution

Secularism: Universal to the West, Provincial to Everywhere Else

Kevin Flatt’s new book, “Secularization, Social Order, and World History” argues that the decline of religion is not an inevitable quasi-Hegelian phenomenon, but a particular

How to Live amid Civilizational Decline

Civilization is best preserved through forward-looking dynamism, not reactionary nostalgia. Yet every great City of Man must one day fall, and so our final hope must rest in the eternal City of God.

Speakers of Jesus’s Native Tongue: Syriac Christians & the Endurance of an Ancient Faith

The story of Syriac Christians, which history has sadly forgotten as among the first disciples of Christ, is one of political neglect and tragedy, but also of hope for the future

Athens Needs Jerusalem—and America Needs Both

A return to America’s spiritual founding is the West’s best hope against both woke utopianism on the left and a revival of religious chauvinism on the right

May 1940: How Churchill Came to Save Christian Civilization

Winston Churchill’s ascendency to prime minister in May of 1940 is perhaps the most consequential moment in the history of Christian civilization

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