Responding to Pope Leo’s encyclical, patristics scholar Professor John Rist argues that history, from Rome’s fall to the Second World War, shows the necessity of moral clarity in war. The post From Augustine to Auschwitz:…
In the early 1800s, the French political thinker and historian Alexis de Tocqueville visited the fledging new republic calling itself the “United States of America.” One of his observations, which he wrote about in his book, Democracy in…
There are many different kinds of conservatism—saber-rattling neoconservatives, backward-looking paleoconservatives, free-wheeling libertarians, to name a few. Ronald Reagan fused them into a winning coalition rooted in a common consensus…
Over the past several years, I have had the honor to write a series of columns on issues dear to my heart: the importance of marriage, families, male leadership, a well-ordered society, faith, and history. Each of these issues affects what we…
We know his first name, but not his last. We think we know when he died, but it’s unclear when he was born. Over the centuries, plenty of legend has taken root about Patrick as firm fact, but there’s enough known about his life to celebrate…
Just a bit more than a week ago, it feels much longer than that so I was pleased when I checked the date, I compared the current Iranian regime with some of the great mass killers of history. I ended that post saying, “But make no…
Javier Villamor, European Conservative Wednesday, January 21, 2026 For most of modern history, Greenland barely registered in global politics. It was widely seen as a distant, ice-covered territory with little influence beyond its immediate…
At the beginning of each year, many people look back at the previous year with fond memories while others may be glad that it’s over. With New Year’s resolutions, we often try to think of things we want to do better or differently in the new…
The great apologist G. K. Chesterton once wrote, “All men matter. You matter. I matter. It’s the hardest thing in theology to believe.” Rob Renfroe took Chesterton’s observation and concluded, “And that God—the God who is big enough to speak all…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQLq8bPRg-o Robert Royal reports from St. Peter’s Square on the historic day Pope Leo declares St. John Henry Newman the 38th Doctor of the Church. Amid the celebrations on All Saints’ Day, Royal reflects on…
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