On a number of occasions, I taught American Government in the state prison. I would enter via the front gate, go through security, then make my way across the prison yard, between the cell

USA Today announced in April of 2025 that for “three decades, the percentage of Americans who identify as Christian has steadily declined, a trend confirmed by countless studies. For many

The election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who took the name Leo XIV, on May 8, 2025, was greeted the world over with nearly universal acclaim. Pope Leo XIV, born on Chicago’s South

It is well established that the story of the French Revolution and the American founding is largely one of interaction and mutual influence. From Publius’ deference to Montesquieu to

Christianity has come to Silicon Valley, according to The New York Times (February 11, 2025) and this publication (Summer 2025), thanks in part to local churches teaching how a high-tech

We often hear that Thomas Jefferson got his anthropology wrong, a fact best seen in his dismissal of original sin’s effects and his apparent trust in “the people.” But is this really a full

“Like religion, education is nothing or it is everything—a consuming fire in the bones.” —Charlotte Mason During World War Two, as the Allies endeavored to win the war against the Axis

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When they are lamenting the excesses of billionaires, anonymous commenters and pundits alike often do the math out loud. Surely, America’s 700,000 homeless could be housed for, say, $50,000

Dr. Michael Guillén is a world-class scientist and communicator. He holds a three-fold Ph.D. from Cornell University in physics, astronomy, and mathematics. For years, he was an award

Tracey Rowland once quipped that, while natural law is proposed “as a kind of lingua franca for dialogue with non-believers,” given that most liberal theorists ignore it and many Protestants

Europe was changing rapidly in the 16th century. The advance of humanism and the Protestant Reformation offered challenges to the Church’s authority and the very idea of what it meant to be