A recent email discussion between a theologically diverse group of right-of-center friends—Christians, Jews, agnostics, and atheists—provided much food for thought. Is Christianity the main culprit for what one interlocutor aptly referred to as “white guilt” and all of the cultural and political degeneracy by which this phenomenon has been attended?  This person and another—both non-Christians—agreed…

Christian leadership—meaning clerics and commentators of both the Catholic and Protestant varieties—all too often reveals itself to be of the world. Speaking as a practicing Roman Catholic, this is a sobering truth with which to reckon. But it’s true all of the same. Between genuine Christianity and what I will henceforth refer to as Big…

Almost a generation ago, David Horowitz, editor of Frontpagemagazine, wrote The Art of Political War.  Horowitz’s’ book was addressed to his fellow Republican partisans who failed to realize what Horowitz—and the left from which he converted—knew all too well: “Politics,” he wrote, “is war conducted by other means.” The author elaborated: “In political warfare you…

Big Conservative media celebrities have regularly chastised the left for failing to acknowledge the existence of evil in our world.  Yet while the left is indeed a moral swampland, Big Conservatives should remove the boulder from their own collective eye first. Violence, whether it is politically-motivated against those who leftist thugs deem insufficiently progressive, or…

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