Where I Was Wrong Part II: Iraq

by Pete Spiliakos

Perhaps no error looms larger in contemporary American politics than Iraq. Continue Reading »

27 Oct 2016

First Buds of the Church

by Timothy George

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are over now, but the melodies linger on—not only for those who observe the full twelve days of Christmastide, but also for others for whom the season has been mostly about lots of good food, good cheer, and the feel-good sentimentality of “God's in his heaven, . . . . Continue Reading »

28 Dec 2015

On Rescuing Syrian Christians

by Mark Movsesian

A nice piece by Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post, on the efforts of Lord George Weidenfeld, a British Jew, to save some Syrian Christians. Weidenfeld was himself rescued by Christians in 1938. A British Protestant group brought him to London from Vienna, thus saving him from the Holocaust. . . . . Continue Reading »

31 Jul 2015

What Have We Learned From the Iraq War?

by Pete Spiliakos

Knowing what we know now,” would you have invaded Iraq? Jeb Bush stumbled over this question. His answer focused on whether Saddam Hussein's regime had active programs for weapons of mass destruction. But the mistakes relating to WMDs are neither the only, nor the most currently relevant, of the . . . . Continue Reading »

11 Jun 2015

Solzhenitsyn's Red Wheel

by Daniel J. Mahoney

It is not uncommon for readers of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s final novel, The Red Wheel, to draw comparisons with another Russian masterpiece, Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Like its predecessor, The Red Wheel is a massive, sweeping work, six thousand pages divided into four . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2015

Can Politicians Responsibly Discuss the Risks of War?

by Pete Spiliakos

Will the 2016 election be about foreign policy? And, if it is, can non-interventionist conservatives win that kind of election? Some think the answers to these questions might be “yes and yes.” I think that the answers are more likely to be “probably no and not yet.” Continue Reading »

16 Apr 2015

Loving and Staying in Goma

by Armin Rosen

Goma airport, the gateway to one of the largest and most strategic cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s unstable and mineral-rich east, is the city’s only connection to distant Kinshasa, the DRC’s capital and a place unreachable from Goma by road. Consequently, it’s also one of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2014

Syria and What is Good

by Kate Pitrone

I thought John Kerry did a beautiful job, a presidential job, trying to convince the American people and the world that we ought to go to war against Syria.  Really brilliant, save one problem, that we would be siding with Al Qaeda in the conflict.  Or rather, not siding with them as much . . . . Continue Reading »

28 Aug 2013

The True Awfullness of Benghazi

by Kate Pitrone

About Pete’s take on the Benghazi matter : I think is fairly clear in testimony that the Obama Administration did lie, did cover-up what had happened, and was totally disingenuous about the whole thing.  Judgement call?   It was a judgement call and about international . . . . Continue Reading »

9 May 2013

What is Terrorism’s Real Threat to Liberty?

by Kate Pitrone

Over at the Ashbrook Center’s website, David Tucker , of the Naval Postgraduate School and an Ashbrook fellow asks us to consider how much freedom we would sacrifice to be safe from terrorism.   Living in freedom means living with risk.  It means accepting danger.  The only way . . . . Continue Reading »

23 Apr 2013