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
Jeffery Tyler SyckApril 22, 2025
Human rights, properly defined and pragmatically pursued, do not need to be a distraction from great power competition with China and Russia but can instead be a core part of the fight against our repressive adversaries
Corban TeagueApril 3, 2025
The lost art of political oratory must be recovered to save not only our politics, but the soul of America
Jeffery Tyler SyckMarch 14, 2025
A new novel (and movie) about Vladimir Putin’s chief spin-doctor explain how the true battle between Ukraine and Russia is not one of warring armies, but of competing narratives
Steven TuckerMarch 4, 2025
A “peace at all costs” attitude belies that an unjust, strategically unsound peace that just kicks the can down the road will be no peace at all
J. Daryl CharlesFebruary 28, 2025
Christianity in public life finds expression through two contrasting yet complementary forms: the prophetic and the political. Both are necessary for authentic Christian witness
John BarrettFebruary 21, 2025
In debates around immigration, you see too much of the platitudinous, vapid moralizing that often passes for serious political thought in evangelical circles
Tim MiloschFebruary 17, 2025
The new term ‘just statecraft’ is complementary to the broader Just War Theory framework by linking it to broader elements of national strategy
Marc LiVeccheFebruary 13, 2025
The pursuit of Augustine’s idea of “tranquillitas ordinis” (tranquility of order) is the ultimate purpose of just war theory and just statecraft
J. Daryl CharlesFebruary 12, 2025
