When China’s relations with the West are good, Christianity can be practiced openly, but when tensions rise, Christianity ceases to be tolerated

Despite the limits on Executive power, the American President still represents the country, Chesterton explains.

Chesterton was conscious that to stand for eugenics or against it was to stand for evil or good in forms as absolute as can be found.

In every way, Putin has perpetrated a conflict characterized by war crimes against Ukraine.

This Veterans Day, growing disrespect for the war-dead seems a sad symptom of our ever-widening distance from the ways of our ancestors.

Christians ought to carefully think about Flag Day, both in terms of symbols and in terms of citizenship.

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

In this atmosphere of apathetic patriotism, G.K. Chesterton’s “Defense of Publicity,” an essay on public monuments, might draw focus back to the purpose of Memorial Day.

Providence editors Mark Tooley and Marc LiVecche discuss Abigail Lindner and Eric Patterson’s article on G.K. Chesterton and war memorials, Lubomir Ondrasek’s piece on Czech leader Vaclav Havel’s warning against hatred, and Lee Trepanier’s counsel for how Russian Orthodoxy, lacking the Just War tradition, can oppose injustice with church teaching on personhood.