Commentary
National Review: The Gospel According to Locke
The life and teachings of Jesus were his lodestar.
National Review: The Totalitarian Temptation Remains
Mussolini understood something about the human need to worship.
The National Interest: Is This America’s Mussolini Moment?
Whatever the ultimate fate of Trumpism, America’s Mussolini moment is far from over.
Law & Liberty: A Forgotten Champion of Religious Liberty
Dirck Coornhert’s 1582 Synod on the Freedom of Conscience speaks to our polarized age.
The National Interest: Toleration, Liberalism, and Lessons for a Fractured America
The bitter sectarianism that enveloped sixteenth-century Europe offers a warning about the tribalism that now darkens American public life.
National Review: One Hundred Years Ago, ‘Following the Science’ Meant Supporting Eugenics
How G. K. Chesterton stood against an evil that was once frighteningly mainstream.
Wall Street Journal: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lesson About Evil for Our Time
As Gildor the elf told the Shire in ‘The Lord of the Rings’: ‘The wide world is all about you . . . you cannot forever fence it out.’
National Review: Russia and Realism, American-Style
The shadow of Russian barbarism has returned — and the impulse toward isolationism will not drive it out.
National Review: When Ronald Reagan Sent the Soviet Union to the Ash Heap of History
Remembering the timeless wisdom of President Reagan’s Westminster speech, 40 years ago today.
National Review: Locke’s Radical Claims for Conscience
Perhaps the most undervalued quality of a great mind or, at least, an awakened mind is the willingness to abandon cherished ideas that cannot stand up to new evidence. English philosopher John Locke possessed such a mind.