Arguably the Iran War is America’s first post-Christian war, heralded with brutalist rhetoric, not a moral vision. The problem is not so much “bad theology,” but no theology.

Conservatives must become more attentive to how the use and abuse of the English language shapes politics and culture

While there are many reasons to be for or against the current administration’s tariffs, this impulse to invoke Reagan to criticize Trump can obscure significant overlap in each president’s strategic use of trade as a geopolitical tool

First Things is arguably the most important religious publication in America today, but under R.R. Reno it has sharply diverged from the views of its founder Richard John Neuhaus

While our European allies remain important, the U.S. must refocus on deterring China given the CCP’s efforts to reshape the global economy in its favor, including Europe

The US Federal Government has long utilized an indirect approach to dissociate itself from institutions that promote or allow offensive speech, as with racism and antisemitism. 

Human rights, properly defined and pragmatically pursued, do not need to be a distraction from great power competition with China and Russia but can instead be a core part of the fight against our repressive adversaries

Trump wants to end the war in Ukraine as soon as possible and on his terms. Will Putin accept an American-brokered peace or continue fighting?

Trump’s efforts to end the war in Ukraine as soon as possible is in keeping with the just war criteria of only supporting wars that can be won, however clear the morality of the conflict