Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
In a 19th-century allegory often attributed to the French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme, Truth and Lie bathe together in a well. Suddenly, the Lie emerges, steals Truth’s clothes, and flees.
In today’s world, safety has become an obsession—from helicopter parenting to corporate risk aversion to an entire culture built around avoiding discomfort at all costs.
My Twitter — I refuse to call it 𝕏 — feed was full of chortling posts claiming that the Vatican denied Vice President J D Vance a meeting with Pope Francis, sending the Vatican’s second-ranking official instead, in what the left loudly proclaimed was a deliberate snub to Mr Vance. That’s not quite what it …
Dante’s Inferno is not just an imaginative journey through Hell—it is a moral argument. The poem presents a world where every sin has a price, where wrongdoers receive punishments perfectly suited to their crimes.
When people imagine Hell, they often picture fire, demons, and eternal torment—but much of this imagery doesn’t come from the Bible. Instead, it comes from Dante Alighieri’s, “Inferno.”
Are we approaching a chaos event horizon – the point at which we’ll lack the moral foundation to self-govern? The evidence that the values essential for democracy are disappearing from our society is overwhelming.
In a world that prizes outrage, thrives on callouts, and worships moral high ground, one ancient virtue has quietly vanished from public life: forgiveness.
Why do Democrats (radical left) drive, support, and enable, support, or say nothing about domestic terrorism, violence, anarchy, assassinations, and assault?
They blow up marathons, execute political opponents, and leave families ruined in their wake. Yet somehow, society finds itself hypnotized by their faces. We make them into icons. We print their likeness on posters, frame them in soft lighting, and argue that they’re more than just what they did.
At West Point, the motto is clear: Duty, Honor, Country. These are not just words; they represent a code of conduct, a commitment to truth, and a foundation for leadership.
Once upon a time there were three little ants. The ants had an unusual home. They lived atop an elephant. Long ago the ants’ mother had reasoned that an elephant would be a wise place to lay eggs to keep them from danger.
This series is about the Birth Control Pill and its lasting effect on societies. Today: 3: 1990s to Today – The Destruction of Family and Society
A lot has been written about various forms of government (democracy, republic, monarchy, communism, etc.) and how they enable or hinder freedom. But not enough has been said about an essential element of freedom and prosperity – morality
In the hectic activity of our daily lives, it’s easy to become comfortable and complacent when it comes to our personal devotion to God and our own personal spiritual condition.
Since its founding in 1802, West Point has upheld the Honor Code, requiring cadets to live by one of the simplest yet most demanding principles in military ethics: “A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
Every great civilization, community, and individual life is built upon a foundation of core values. Without clear guiding principles, people drift, compromise, and become vulnerable to deception and stagnation.
I’ve no interest in uber-intrusiveness. But I do have a strong interest in preserving civilization — and in restoring it in the first place.
The Biden Administration, after the stolen 2020 election, even set up an Orwellian Ministry of Truth (“paused” due to public outrage) and redirected our military and Federal Agencies from War Fighting to political correctness, gender issues, and targeting political opponents
For those trained in Aristotelian thought, Christianity required not just belief—but an intellectual transformation.
The Islamists know that hostages have value. From President Reagan trading arms for hostages held by Hezbollah in Lebanon, to the exchange of 1,027 ‘Palestinian’ terrorists — including Yahya Sinwar — for one captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit in October of 2011, the Islamic militants have realized that a few civilized Westerners have an outsized …