For Valour: Queen for Our Times
A Review of Robert Hardman’s Biography of Queen Elizabeth II Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s wreath on the bier of King George VI in 1952 was inscribed only “For Valour.” He knew that was the motto...
View ArticleIn Defense of Cold War Liberalism
When the interpretation of history becomes divorced from the facts of history, frightening political prescriptions capable of upending society are likely to follow. Samuel Moyn’s recently published...
View ArticleChristian Realism vis-à-vis the Liberalism of Fear: Thoughts on Samuel Moyn’s...
“Liberalism has only one overriding aim: to secure the political conditions that are necessary for the exercise of personal freedom”, so the legendary Harvard political theorist Judith Shklar claimed...
View ArticleGetting Sex-Real About Feminism
Christian Realists and sex-realist feminists have much in common. While insisting that significant aspects of the world are unchangeable, both nevertheless seek to improve it within the bounds...
View Article1968: A New Dawn
We are now just a year out from America’s 2024 presidential election, an event that most folks are anticipating with a depth of angst that can only be described as existential. As anyone who has been...
View ArticleGeorge Kennan: Cold War America’s Intellectual-in-Chief
In a speech to Congress in 1990, President George H. W. Bush declared: “we stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment…a new world order can emerge – freer from the threat of terror, stronger in...
View ArticleReview of Tim Alberta’s “The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory: American...
While there are countless angles from which to approach Tim Alberta’s incisive forthcoming book, The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory, I determined the most honest starting point would be to follow...
View ArticleSanta’s Bookshelf: Christmas recommendations from Providence writers and friends
If you’re looking for last-minute stocking stuffers or New Year reads, Providence has you covered. We asked writers and fellow-travelers for their favorite 2023 reads–or screenings. Enjoy a Yuletide...
View ArticleTurning Points in American Church History: How Pivotal Events Shaped a Nation...
“By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.” (Job 4:9 KJV). These words were spoken by Eliphaz the Temanite to Job. As Job suffers, Eliphaz argues that those...
View ArticleBracing Walk on the Other Side of War Literature
John Waters’ River City One (Simon and Schuster) is a powerful entrée into what we hope is a long, fruitful and developing writing career. The story occupies the spaces in the lives of Veterans that...
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