History

How to Be on the Right Side of History

Maybe, just maybe, in the future of America there lies not some woke utopia but a Renaissance of the Western tradition. Continue Reading »

17 Nov 2021

The Grandfather’s Vocation

by Peter J. Leithart

By leaving an imprint on our grandkids, we throw a line to generations we’ll never live to see. To be a grandparent is to build a bridge of hope from the past into the future. Continue Reading »

12 Nov 2021

Virtue vs. Virtue-Signaling

by James Hankins

Being elite now means holding a particular set of ideas, not a set of virtues. Virtue is signaled, not acquired. Continue Reading »

11 Oct 2021

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 »

1 Aug 2021

The Virtue of Obedience

by Charles J. Chaput

Memory is the soil out of which the present and future grow. Continue Reading »

23 Jul 2021

The Making of Christian England

by Francis Young

The leaders of Anglo-Saxon England perished on the field of Hastings, but their legacy is everywhere. Continue Reading »

12 Jul 2021

Learning, Reading, Understanding

by Mark Bauerlein

David George Moore joins the podcast to discuss his recent book Stuck in the Present: How History Frees and Forms Christians. Continue Reading »

12 Jul 2021

Age of Enchantment

by Timothy Jacobson

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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9 Jun 2021