Abraham Lincoln

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

Whiggish Churchill & Tucker Carlson etc

Seeing Churchill as icon of Anglo/American liberal order, some postliberals including Christians want to demote if not dethrone him

Republican Toryism in America

American conservatives would benefit from reading Ron Dart’s recent work, “The North American High Tory Tradition”

Liberal Nationalism, Abraham Lincoln, and the Unification of Italy

Although liberalism and nationalism are not often thought of together, liberal nationalism is a powerful force for nation-building.

National Security is Not an Abstraction

“National security” may sound like an abstraction, but in reality it’s anything but

A Decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind

Non-Americans have long seen America as a fairer international dealer than her rivals. But why?

Rediscovering America’s Purpose

America was once the world’s arsenal of democracy, can it be again?

On Freedom: From Saint Paul to Luther to Lincoln

What has freedom meant across the ages?

The Principles of American Liberalism

A Patriotic Review of The Religion of American Greatness: What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism, InterVarsity Press, 2022.