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April 2017

April 26, 2017

Leading Historian Made the Analogy Between the Refugee Crisis and the Holocaust Long Before Pope Francis

There goes Pope Francis again, speaking off the record about news events off-the-cuff. He's compared...

April 24, 2017

Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Memory of the Holocaust Continues to Evolve

The great German philosopher is usually only known for the statement, made in Prisms, that the culture which...

August 2016

August 01, 2016

Pope Francis Wasn’t Silent About Auschwitz; He Deconstructed It Instead

There's plenty of talk about Francis's silence during his visit to Auschwitz last week. This...

May 2016

May 01, 2016

Happy May Day (Resurrection Sunday) to the Russian Orthodox!

Товарищ, Христос воскрес! Воистину воскрес! Happy May Day, Resurrection camp starts today. The wonderful thing about...

April 2016

April 28, 2016

Watershed Vatican Conference Makes War on Just War

There is a solid rule about what you can expect about reporting on Catholicism: If it's making the...

November 2015

November 16, 2015

Why Have Civilians Become Primary Jihadist Targets?

There is nothing more heinous than the military targeting of innocent civilians like in the...

November 11, 2015

A New Springtime for Hitler?

On Veterans Day it behooves us to take another look at Timothy Snyder's Black Earth:...

September 2015

September 02, 2015

New Historical Mists Shower Auschwitz with Hope

By now you might be past your knee-jerk reactions to the "showers" (misters, to be...

May 2015

May 08, 2015

Greatest Generation? Russia Is Right, VE Day Was No Simple American Victory

Tom Brokaw's great myth-building volume, The Great Generation, seeped into the American consciousness a couple...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

On the Polish Origins of the Concept of Genocide & Its Armenian Roots

The term genocide seems ancient. It is actually a clumsy Greek-Latin hybrid coined by a...

April 20, 2015

FBI Head Comey is Maliciously Wrong on Holocaust Facts about Poland

It's been said the victors write the history books. This should not be equated...

April 10, 2015

Mein Kampf Against Hitler: Comparing von Hildebrand to Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was recognized as a hero of World War II Nazi-resistance with the posthumous...

January 2015

January 28, 2015

5 Facts Holocaust and World War II Remembrances Frequently Forget

The Holocaust is inextricably tied to memory through maxims such as: Emil Fackenheim's "Never forget" and...

December 2014

December 10, 2014

Torture and Eucharist?

It's been noted (initially by the author of a book on the theology of the...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

Psychopolitics: Schmitt, Bush’s Iraq Mess, and the Saddam Solution

Carl Schmitt who was one of those extremely bad Catholics like Heidegger who...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

The Catholic Imagination and the Age of Czeslaw Milosz

Dissertation writing is a long process of accumulating knowledge, scrapping it, finding surprising connections,...

June 2013

June 19, 2013

One More Nortre Dame Book on/and the Legacy of Solidarność

Last night I went back and checked the Notre Dame Press overstock site on a...