Having been asked recently to write an essay for a friend on the subject, what are we to make of objections to men and women of different races getting married and having families? More
Category Archives: History
Griping, and Saving Private Ryan Anyway
There must be some appetite for raising issues and pointing out negative or even dangerous features and facts in order to mitigate and respond appropriately to them.More
Book Review: Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization by Samuel Gregg
Gregg covers two critically important subjects here: the relationship between rationality and religious belief for one, and the legacy and destiny of the West for another.More
Book Review: ‘Jesus and John Wayne’ by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
As Dr. Du Mez sees it, so many American Evangelicals set aside their concerns about morality to vote for Trump because they never really cared about those things to begin with.More
Book Review: ‘White Cargo’ by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh
In ‘White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America’ by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, the disturbing and tragic tale is told of indentured servitude.More
Book Review: ‘O Jerusalem’ by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
The events of 1948 which resulted in the formation of Israel are still playing out. Here is as an island of Jewish and Western thought in an ocean of non-Western civilization.More
Book Review: ‘The Plantagenets’ by Dan Jones
It is easy to see in reading Dan Jones’ work here how the stream of thought ran its course that the king cannot just declare traitor anyone who seeks to provide accountability to him. More
Book Review: ‘The Magna Carta of Humanity’ by Os Guinness
Like Alexis de Tocqueville, Os Guinness is a figure I have heard quoted often in books and interviews for several years but never read directly myself – until now. More
Book Review: ‘Democracy in America’ by Alexis de Tocqueville
What is so refreshing about it all is that Tocqueville engages in neither hero worship of early America, nor in the demonizing revisionism which is so typical of our day. More
Romans 13, Big Eva, and Who The Real Rebels Are
The proper application of Romans 13 and the whole counsel of God found in Scripture is precisely the opposite of what the big names in American Evangelical Christian leadership insisted. More