Deter Conventional Wars to Avoid Nuclear Precipice
In 1983, Just War scholar William O’Brien wrote: “The greatest threats to the free world do not arise from the…
Rebeccah HeinrichsJanuary 5, 2023
Resurrecting GK Chesterton’s Democracy of the Dead
This Veterans Day, growing disrespect for the war-dead seems a sad symptom of our ever-widening distance from the ways of our ancestors.
Steven TuckerNovember 11, 2022
A Coalition of the Past: A Review of The Strategy of Denial
A Critical Review of The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict by Elbridge Colby, Yale University Press, 2021.
Gregory F. RyanNovember 7, 2022
The Danger of Revolutionary Idealism: the Violence of Collectivism
The Rise of Violent, Revolutionary Ideology in the 20th Century and its Christian Realist Tonic.
Eric PattersonNovember 2, 2022
The Folly of Wishful Thinking Idealism: the Indwelling Sin of All Men
Wishful Thinking Idealism, unlike Christian Realism, believes that everyone, even competition, is fundamentally reasonable.
Eric PattersonOctober 31, 2022
Chastened Patriotism
Patriotism is part of our repertoire of civic ideals and identities, as Jean Bethke Elshtain reminded us. While its excesses and perversions are to be lamented, Patriotism rightly perceived yields a concern for the moral tenor of one’s culture.
J. Daryl CharlesOctober 25, 2022
Corrymeela, Northern Ireland: a Christian Outpost in a Nation at War with Itself (Part Two)
Corrymeela’s community believes no one can unwind every evil of the past, so each person can only decide how he will live with others in the present.
Peter BurnsOctober 13, 2022
Moral Courage and the Grim Necessity of Sacrifice 
American audiences are still hungry for cinematic portrayals of the old virtues: patriotism, heroism, courage, and self-sacrifice
Marc LiVeccheSeptember 22, 2022
