The Almost-Chosen President
Abraham Lincoln is America’s greatest and most important president. Although a contrarian might like to assert George Washington, himself a great president, the honest reality is that…
Deliverance and Nationhood: A Comparative Political Study of T. E. Lawrence and Moses
The embryonic nation is a tumultuous one. It consists of a disjointed agglomeration of often diverse people who struggle to live and thrive as one. With no…
Is Islamism an Ideological Threat to Europe?
Few names have had more maledictions heaped on them by the pro-Islamic media than that of Dutch politician Geert Wilders. In particular, the incendiary politico has faced…
Political-Theological Diagonalizations: A Review of Sarah Shortall’s “Soldiers of God in a Secular World
Sarah Shortall. Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. At a time when the relationship…
Between Dogma of the Church and Freedom of the Real World in Treacherous Times Hans Ehrenberg and the battle against National Socialism
“During the Reformation the struggle was really within the church, today we struggle with the secular: secularism.” - Hans Ehrenberg to Karl Barth 22.2.1934[1] “The future is…
What Can Saint Thomas Aquinas Teach us About Politics? A Review of William McCormick’s “The Christian Structure of Politics”
William McCormick. The Christian Structure of Politics: On the De Regno of Thomas Aquinas. Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2022. It has long been…
The Necessity of Political Theology in Political Science
Though at times obscured by the array of content from the subfields of political science, there is a fundamental relationship between theology and the study of politics.…