United States

Russian Then and Now

Judge Stephen P. Friot joins the podcast to discuss his new book Containing History: How Cold War History Explains US–Russia Relations. Continue Reading »

24 Aug 2023

It takes a critical mass of citizens, living by certain virtues and the convictions that undergird them, to make a democracy work so that the result is individual human flourishing and social solidarity. Continue Reading »

17 May 2023

Taking the Founders at Their Word

by Brad Littlejohn

The founding consensus combined a salutary emphasis on the necessity of public religion and broadly Christian moral foundations with a liberal forbearance from specifying or enforcing confessional particulars. Continue Reading »

20 Mar 2023

NatCon Against the Black Pill

by Justin Lee

The recent NatCon conference in Miami was animated by an active hope for the nation's political prognosis. Continue Reading »

23 Sep 2022

America's Ideological Temptation

by R. R. Reno

The West has adopted aspects of the old Kremlin mentality. Continue Reading »

1 Sep 2022

The Oldest Cathedral and the Newest Challenge

by George Weigel

Are the bishops still leading the Catholic Church in America? Continue Reading »

2 Jun 2021

Bonfire of the Verities

by James Hankins

Twenty-twenty was a tough year for the tradition-minded, and so far, 2021 isn’t any better. Those of us who prize the traditions of American governance discovered that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights aren’t worth the parchment they’re written on if We the People can be frightened into . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2021

America and Armenia

by Mark Movsesian

Not since Ronald Reagan has a president spoken forthrightly of the Ottoman government's ethnic cleansing campaign against Armenians from 1915–23. Why did Biden do so now? Continue Reading »

10 May 2021