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  • A Letter from World War I

    A Letter from World War I0

    • August 18, 2015

    My great grandfather, Harold Schuler, served in the U.S. Army on the European war theater from December 1917 to May 1919. I’m not sure how much action he saw, but his notebook entry and letter below provides a small glimpse into what soldiers experienced during the “Great War.” Here is his notebook entry from August

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  • A Lesson We All Can Learn from the Chicago Torture Case

    A Lesson We All Can Learn from the Chicago Torture Case0

    The kidnaping and torturing of a white, special-needs teenager by four black teenagers in Chicago has horrified the country. Details of the attack point to racial hatred, but Matt Walsh wonders if something “worse” also was behind the depravity of the attack. Walsh noted that on the Facebook video of the attack, the attackers weren’t

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  • A Lesson to Draw from the Orthodox-Catholic Schism

    A Lesson to Draw from the Orthodox-Catholic Schism0

    • February 12, 2016

    Among the top news stories today is the historic meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill. It marks the first official meeting between the head of the Roman Catholic Church and a patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church since the Great Schism almost one thousand years ago. For those of you who were taught dates

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  • A Lesson in Power

    A Lesson in Power0

    The unifying strand in conservatism as a movement and the GOP as a political operation is a superficial desire to limit and eschew power. This position is sloganized in exhortations against “big government,” against “socialism,” against the noxious fumes of power. But movement conservatives, like their political counterparts, are quite all right with both the

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  • A Lesson in Human Dignity From Stone Age Ireland

    A Lesson in Human Dignity From Stone Age Ireland0

    Five thousand, two hundred years ago, long before Stonehenge, long before the Pyramids, farming communities in the Boyne Valley of Ireland built a gigantic passage tomb, called Newgrange. It covers 4,500 square meters, or more than one acre, of ground. The builders heaped alternating layers of stone and earth until it was 12 meters high.

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  • A Legal Immigrant’s Lament

    A Legal Immigrant’s Lament0

    In the late 1940s, my father, Kenneth Billingsley, a veteran of World War II, was working in a mine in the northern reaches of Manitoba. So through no fault of my own, I was born a long way north of the border. Despite childhood stints in Alliance, Ohio, and Detroit, Michigan, when I sought to

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