Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

What has freedom meant across the ages?

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

Though the government cannot make us virtuous, our leaders can challenge us to be better than we often are.  

Now is the time for us to show Russia what kind of country America is. We can show the Russians and the world by sending our naval hospitals USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy to Odessa. We can provide humanitarian help the Ukrainians desperately need.

While most histories of the Civil War naturally focus on the drama in America, Don H. Doyle’s “The Cause of All Nations” explains how the conflict fits into broader world history and how events abroad affected the war.

Goldman responds to commentators who believe that Americans must return to some overarching identity and purpose. He argues that this task is difficult when the conditions that allowed previous unity no longer exist. Moreover, nationalists do not reasonably explain programs that could reignite a meaningful shared identity.