In 1980, the soldiers of the Third Reich took Bolivia. After the huge tank battles that had brought about the final victory in Europe, South America was something more like a police operation—in fact, the conquest of the country was led not by the Wehrmacht, but by a Hauptsturmführer of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Memory is the soil out of which the present and future grow. Continue Reading »
The leaders of Anglo-Saxon England perished on the field of Hastings, but their legacy is everywhere. Continue Reading »
David George Moore joins the podcast to discuss his recent book Stuck in the Present: How History Frees and Forms Christians. Continue Reading »
Though I was on the verge of growing up, the Civil War Centennial revealed to me the reality of the past; it enchanted me, and wove a spell.
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The historical overview offered by Elcott et al. is inadequate and misleading. Continue Reading »
It is not a matter of returning to the past but of consecrating the present. Continue Reading »
Is liberalism giving way to something new? The most notable contemporary case for postliberalism, Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed, has four tacit assumptions: First, America is in decline. Second, liberalism is responsible for this decline. Third, liberalism is collapsing under the . . . . Continue Reading »
Legal conservatives and originalists should adjust their views in response to the clear and convincing historical evidence of constitutional personhood. Continue Reading »
This month it's The Count of Monte Cristo, the Hapsburgs, and a foray into Sinclair Lewis.
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