Entrepreneurs of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your quintiles! Read More… Fulton Sheen once remarked that “not over a hundred people” hate the Catholic Church, but “there are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church.” The same might be said for free market economics. While attacks on capitalism abound, many of them are in fact critiques not of capitalism but of a misunderstanding of capitalism. That is why every generation...

“God Almighty has set before me two great objects … the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.” Read More… On February 24, 1807, the House of Commons voted by 283 votes to 16 to end the trade in human slaves in all British territories. The e was testimony to the tenacity, zeal, mitment of the most prominent evangelical Member of Parliament at the end of the 18th century, William Wilberforce (1759–1833). It had been a long...

A new book offers concrete solutions to entrenched problems that have contributed to the fragmentation, isolation, and desolation munities across the country. Step one is to start right where you are. Read More… Sociologist Robert Nisbet declared our era to be “singularly weak” in social inventiveness. In a new book on local solutions to America’s social ills, author Seth Kaplan agrees—with some exceptions. “Our modern era is not the first one in which the U.S. has weathered rapid social change,”...

The election of Argentina’s first libertarian holds much promise for economic reform and an end to the status quo that has wrecked Argentina’s economy, once one of the most robust in the world. But can the new president fulfill his promises, especially given the “caste” arrayed against him? Read More… Nothing guarantees that a country will remain prosperous forever. President Reagan stated that “we are never more than one generation away” from doing lasting damage to the primary institutions of...

A searingly personal and poignant account of a battle with mental illness and how Word and Liturgy can calm the mind will speak both to sufferers and those who e alongside them. Read More… He knows. This John knows. How? Has he peered down into the bottomless pit in the middle of the Wilderness? Seen the Stranger trapped in a small iron Cage lowered on a long iron chain so far into the darkness that only a pinprick of light...

A prominent Member of Parliament and a Lutheran bishop have been found not guilty of “hate speech” for publicly quoting Scripture and confessing their Christian faith in Finland. But is their trial really over? Read More… In Finland, a prominent politician and a Lutheran bishop have been acquitted of hate crimes for the second time in as many years. On November 14, 2023, the Helsinki Court of Appeals issued its unanimous decision that Finnish Member of Parliament Dr. Päivi Räsänen...

Already winning pre-Oscar awards and gaining attention for its performances, The Holdovers proves to be both a throwback to an earlier era and a step forward for director Alexander Payne. Read More… When es to film genres, the kinds, the sorts, the categories of picture defined by certain conventions and characteristics, we’re all familiar with sci fi, the western, the detective crime drama, the war epic, edy (which includes mini-genres like , absurdist (think Airplane!), black (think Dr. Strangelove). Then...

Hong Kong’s biggest freedom fighter is about to stand trial. Here’s what you need to know. Read More… Jimmy Lai is no ordinary political protester. The 76-year-old Hong Kong entrepreneur and newspaper publisher has sat in solitary confinement in 35-pound handcuffs for more than 1,000 days as he prepares for the trial of his life. On one side are Lai and his defenders. On the other side is the Chinese Communist Party, preparing to keep Jimmy in prison for the...

Philosopher Sebastian Morello makes the case for the political establishment of religion. Has the time e for conservatives to agree that this may be the only way out of our current moral morass? Read More… The 20th century was an outlier in the history of the human race. For the first time, secularizing movements spanned the globe. In many places, they succeeded by suppressing the political expression of religion. The great religions lost their capacity to direct culture and society....

Director Ridley Scott has made a film about Napoleon that will never be described as Napoleonic. The director of such film-fan favorites as Blade Runner, Alien, and Gladiator has apparently met his Waterloo. Read More… Among all art forms, the movies have the greatest propensity to glorify violence, brutality, and savagery of all sorts. Because the medium is inherently kinetic, cinema captures the thrill, terror, and barbarism of battle; and because it is empathetic, cinema trains audiences to identify with...