First World War (WWI)

In Defense of Christians’ Richard Ghazal speaks on Syriac Christians in Turkey

The strategic anxiety of encirclement has driven great-power policy for centuries; Russia and China represent the modern version of this classic security dilemma.

President Kennedy understood the need to counter America’s enemies without precipitating WWIII.

The idea of a culture war is not new.

The Christmas truce provides hope that there is a peace beyond the ugliness of warfare and sorrow.

WASPs tended to identify themselves as uniquely positioned guardians of the nation’s heritage. As their cultural influence had begun waning by World War I, their spokesmen resorted with greater ferocity to a crusading mindset to bolster their influence.

The Catholic tradition reminds us that just war thinking is critical to peacemaking.

What we can gain from the origins of the Great War is that strategic ambiguity played a role in bringing on that cataclysm.

What would President Roosevelt say of President Joe Biden and his Democratic administration abandoning the Afghan people? Perhaps Biden, and many in the West, have turned away from winning because they have lost a sense that victory, even an unsatisfying partial victory, is politically and morally viable.