This article was originally posted at MetroFocus. Authors J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis share the distinction of being two of the most important writers of the twentieth century, but they were also close friends, bonded by their shared experiences of the First World War and its aftermath. In his book, A Hobbit, A Wardrobe and a […]

This article was originally posted at Providence. Perhaps like no other Republican presidential candidate, Senator Ted Cruz exemplifies the nation’s conflicted conscience over the direction of U.S. foreign policy in the age of terror. Should the United States promote democracy in the Middle East, or should we learn to live with Arab dictatorships, even as we […]

This article was originally posted at Providence. Barack Obama’s prime-time address to the nation on Sunday—delivered four days after the most deadly terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11—was intended to reassure an anxious nation that America was nevertheless on course to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Instead, the president’s predictably languid, […]

This article was originally posted at Providence. If we needed conclusive proof of the degraded condition of America’s political leadership, we have it in the debate over the Syrian refugee crisis. For the Republican Party and its conservative allies, this is their hour of shame. Last week 27 Republican governors declared that they would not accept […]

This article was originally posted at Providence. The Paris terror attack by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has transformed the immigration debate in this country: whether to allow at least 10,000 Syrian refugees into the United States over the next year, as proposed by President Obama. Fearing that terrorists will slip in […]

This article was originally posted at the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. When Barack Obama won the election in 2008, the cover of TIME magazine showed the president-elect grinning like Franklin Roosevelt, with FDR’s signature fedora, wire-rimmed glasses, and long-stemmed cigarette. The cover article, “The New, New Deal,” suggested how Mr. Obama could emulate the accomplishments […]

This article was originally posted at the CapX. Just a few hours before foot soldiers of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) unleashed a storm of terror, anguish, and death upon the city of Paris, President Obama assured an ABC News interviewer that his military approach to the terrorist threat was working. “What is […]

The Obama White House seems blithely unaware that one of America’s most important partners in the struggle to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS) and alleviate the refugee crisis in Europe—Turkey, a member of NATO—is on the brink of a political meltdown that could end its experiment in liberal democracy.

This article was originally posted at the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Responding to Reformation Day and Luther’s Legacy November 3, 2015 The papal bull of 1520 excommunicating Martin Luther from the Catholic Church accused him of promoting forty-one heresies and “pestiferous errors.” One of the alleged […]

Read this article in it’s entirety at The Wall Street Journal. He wanted reform but got the Reformation. Will Islam one day be similarly modernized? October 29, 2015 When an obscure German monk hammered his indictments to the door of All Saints’ Church at Wittenberg on Oct. 31, 1517, he did not intend to impugn the […]