History

What’s the Best Way to Deal with a ‘Political Animal’?0
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- December 10, 2018
G. K. Chesterton was that rarest of political animals. He was a fellow of firm views and well decided certainties. But he was also someone who always treated those of differing views and certainties with fairness and kindness. (We could use many more of his type these days, couldn’t we?) How did Chesterton manage to
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The Perpetual Presidency 0
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- December 6, 2018
Former President Barack Obama recently continued his series of public broadsides against his successor, Donald Trump. Obama’s charges are paradoxical. On one hand, Obama seems to believe that he, rather than Trump, should be credited with the current economic boom and the emergence of the United States as the world’s largest energy producer. But Obama
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Can Patriotism and Nationalism Co-exist?0
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- November 30, 2018
Patriotism or nationalism? Elite wisdom tells us that one is not the other. More than that, such wisdom wants us to believe that one is good and the other is bad. But is that so? Can a patriot be a nationalist and vice versa? If not, why not? Really now, is there a meaningful difference
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Information Age Warfare: When Propaganda Overpowered Sheer Numbers 0
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- November 9, 2018
It was the sinking of a British boat by a German torpedo that began to push the United States toward entering World War I. For many Americans the attack on the ocean liner Lusitania in May 1915 and the subsequent death of an estimated 1,198 people including 128 Americans solidified the belief that Germany was
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The Armistice Day Prediction That Came True 0
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- November 8, 2018
As we approach the centenary of Armistice Day, 1918, let’s spend a few minutes with a British writer who supported his country’s war against Germany and worried about the peace that resulted from it. That writer would be G. K. Chesterton, who died in 1936, just before World War II, or the war that he
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Why All Good Social Justice Warriors Support Presumption of Innocence 0
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- October 11, 2018
I have a friend in Papua New Guinea named Monica Paulus who was accused of casting sorcery spells because a person died in her village. Her neighbors almost murdered her until she fled the region. Now she works to save other women falsely accused of sorcery who are targets of torture and killing. She recognizes
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