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It Begins: Axios

How do you defend the indefensible? Start with Axios. The news outfit founded by former Politico mainstay Mike Allen has a front-page feature by…

Pope pushes EU

One of the most prominent advocates for allowing millions of refugees to resettle in Europe is now advocating for European

Can the Political Center Hold in Europe?

The tension between political demands for self-determination on one hand and maintaining the sovereignty, the unity of a state, on the other is…

What Catalonia Tells Us

The news from Catalonia -- at the time of this writing, Sunday night in America -- is not good. There has been violent confrontation over the in…

How about Some Restorative Justice for Post-Communist Societies?

The recent effort to reform the Polish judiciary has come under fire as an assault on democracy and is loudly condemned by the Western media. In…

The American Spirit and Culture: Alive and Well despite Harvey

Hurricane Harvey hit southeast Texas more than a week ago. By now anyone who is awake is aware of the heroic efforts to rescue the many thousand…

Ryszard Legutko and the Failings of Democracy

I consider Ryszard Legutko, former professor at the Jagellonian Institute in Krakow and an adviser to the very conservative president of Poland,…

The Al-Aqsa Fraud

Martin Luther, in his criticism of Catholic pilgrimages, once said, “There are 12 apostles, and 18 of them are buried in Spain.” He probably wou…

Michelle Obama and family go high, higher, highest

At last year

Catholic psychiatric hospitals in Belgium ‘adjust’ their view of euthanasia

Elements in the Catholic Church apparently have entered a new era of flexibility on doctrines that once stood as seemingly permanent protections…

Trump, NATO, and the Burden of the Past

In his first speech to members of NATO, American Secretary of Defense Mattis said, “Americans cannot care more for your children’s future securi…

President Obama and the bust of Churchill

On Inauguration Day, President Trump entered the Oval Office and welcomed a familiar friend: the bust of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. D…

A Separate Catalonia?

I am not Spanish, but I am following in the path of other Americans -- such as Washington Irving, Ernest Hemingway, and Orson Welles -- who find…

Who the Crusaders Are in 2016

The Muslim world jumped on President George W. Bush

Anti-Semitism in British Universities

It is sad to learn the truth about anti-Semitism being exhibited at British universities these days. This prejudice of course was always present…

'Winter Wonderland' and the somber story of the man who composed it - American Thinker

The festive sounds of

Kaepernick and gratitude

A black relative in his late 50s told me I should be more sympathetic toward Colin Kaepernick