The issue of American aid for Ukraine should be decided on its own merits, and with a clear strategic and moral understanding of the current situation. Continue Reading »
Does music weaken us? Does it enslave us? Were music and death companions from the very beginning? Continue Reading »
Until early 1939, much of the civilized world refused to believe that Hitler meant what he wrote. Rather, the civilized world averted its eyes from what it should have recognized as the unmistakable threat posed by a re-arming Germany. Continue Reading »
The choice Ukrainians have made—the choice to defend their nationhood and their democracy—poses choices for the rest of the world. Continue Reading »
Andrew Bacevich joins the podcast to talk about American foreign policy, discussing American elites' push for military interventions, in the middle east and elsewhere, and the future of American military and economic power. Continue Reading »
Dwight Eisenhower did not think of politics as performance art. Continue Reading »
As of May 15, Catholic journalists around the world will be able to count one of their number among the saints, as Titus Brandsma, a Dutch Carmelite killed at the Dachau concentration camp in 1942, is canonized in St. Peter’s Square. Continue Reading »
Christians live in a different time zone because of the communion of saints: our spiritual solidarity, in this world, with those Christians who now live in the presence of the Thrice-Holy God and those who are being purified. Continue Reading »
Gertrude Stein characterized the young men and women emerging from the wreckage of World War I as the “lost generation.” I had Stein’s words in mind while reading Vera Brittain’s memoir, Testament of Youth, published in 1933. The book is a classic of the period, written from the . . . . Continue Reading »
The nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was immoral, and gravely so. Continue Reading »
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