Christian Realism

The Daniel Option: America’s Vocation Between Crusade and Retreat

In-between crusading moralism and fatigued withdrawal, Christian realism charts a middle course in foreign policy that balances faithful witness with the recognition that America cannot solve all the world’s problems

Martin Wight’s Postliberal Idealism

In “The Deeper Revolution How Worldviews Shape Western International Politics,” Emily Lange recovers the historically substantial and theologically rich deconstructions of the international system articulated by Martin Wight

Tolkien, Technology, and Geopolitics 

While gene-editing and all-seeing orbs belonged to the realm of fantasy in Tolkien’s own time, today these technologies have the capacity to fundamentally reshape societies and the global order of nations

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

A Shepherd of Ghosts

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

To the Contrary: John Brown Was Not a Christian Nationalist

John Brown was no Christian nationalist

Just Statecraft and the Problem of “Peace”

The pursuit of Augustine’s idea of “tranquillitas ordinis” (tranquility of order) is the ultimate purpose of just war theory and just statecraft

Justice and Strategy in Just Statecraft

The term “just statecraft” is a novel but needed term that acknowledges the just war framework’s usefulness, not just for foreign policy but all areas of grand strategy

Just Statecraft: A Proposal

Introducing “just statecraft,” a new term designed to provoke discussion on the nature of responsible national leadership with reference to principles of just war and just peace