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 […]

This article was originally posted on SE Cupp Should the Pope Address Climate Change? A discussion between SE Cupp, and Dr. Loconte. September 23, 2015 This week Pope Francis will visit Washington DC, and on Thursday he’ll deliver a message to Congress that calls for more action on climate change. The Pope’s June encyclical on climate change, which was […]

This article was originally posted at National Review   Edward R. Murrow, Great Britain’s Herald to America Durning the London Blitz September 7, 2015 “This . . . is London.” With those words, delivered in a measured, baritone voice, CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow began his radio broadcasts during England’s great hour of peril. No man risked more to alert Americans, […]

This article was originally posted at National Review Planned Parenthood and The Eugenics Movement Today’s medical innovation amid moral ambiguity echos that of a century ago. August 15, 2015 There is a haunting familiarity to the arguments defending Planned Parenthood’s sale of body parts from aborted babies for medical research: an echo of another era of medical innovation amid […]

This article was originally posted at CNN   Oxford, England  July 23, 2015 In his controversial encyclical on climate change, Pope Francis delivered a scathing critique of environmental degradation and called for “an ecological conversion” among fellow Christians. A century earlier, however, another environmental debate prompted its own version of soul-searching among the faithful. By the […]

This article was originally posted at Standpoint Magazine.   Undeterred, Erdogan Usurps Ataturk’s Legacy  July/August, 2015 Sahin Alpay, a Marxist-turned-social democrat and longtime advocate of liberal democracy in Turkey, was profoundly anxious about the upcoming national elections when I met up with him at the upmarket Marmara Hotel in Taksim Square a few days before the June […]

This article was originally posted at the National Review.   Italy Fell, Fascism Rose, Europe Reeled Remembering the Great War. June 24, 2015 Sorrento, Italy — Even here, in this coastal haven of sun-drenched serenity, there are reminders. In the center of the Piazza della Vittoria, overlooking the Gulf of Naples, is a monument to the victims […]

This article was originally posted at The Weekly Standard. Turkey, Islamism, and the West A setback for Erdogan. June 12, 2015 Istanbul Claiming victory for his Justice and Development party (AKP) in last week’s historic national election, Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu was defiant. “This election has shown that the backbone of Turkey is the AKP,” he told […]

This article was originally posted at The Weekly Standard.   Islam, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and the Jesus Movement April 13, 2015 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the controversial Muslim-turned-atheist, told a National Press Club audience last week some hard facts about Islam and its propensity toward violence. But her remarks about Christianity—about its capacity to soften sectarian hatreds—may […]

This article was originally posted at The Weekly Standard. FDR at Yalta: Walking With The Devil March 2, 2015 Seventy years ago, on March 1, 1945, Franklin Roosevelt assured a war-weary nation that a new era of international peace and democratic government was at hand. The accords signed just weeks earlier at the Yalta Conference, he told […]