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April 2023

April 14, 2023

DISCUSSION: What Could Bring Americans Together?

Does our nation need to overcome its polarization, and, if so, how might that be...

April 05, 2022

When Australia Faced Invasion

During World War II, Australians fully expected to be invaded by Japan. Abandoned by Great...

March 2022

March 04, 2022

Wars We Don’t Choose

Opinions vary about the Russian attack on Ukraine, but Americans are united in not wanting...

February 2022

February 07, 2022

Wars and Rumors of War

World Wars often come as a surprise to the people who get dragged into them....

December 2021

December 07, 2021

A Pearl Harbor Novel Shows History from the Inside

Today is the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. I am...

May 2017

May 15, 2017

The little nation that defeated the Soviets

A nation is defined by its history and its people's common experiences. That is especially...

December 2016

December 07, 2016

From “the most humiliating year in our history” to victory

Today is the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Daily Oklahoman...

August 2016

August 11, 2016

The politics of refusing power

Usually, politics is a competition between individuals and factions each of which wants to be,...

July 2016

July 21, 2016

Japan flirts with World War II ideology again

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party has just won a 2/3 majority in both of its houses...

December 2015

December 22, 2015

C.S. Lewis, secret agent?

The discovery of a recording of a lecture by C. S. Lewis has connected him...

September 2015

September 03, 2015

World War II ended 70 years ago yesterday

Yesterday was the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. Not many of...

July 2014

July 04, 2014

“Up to now, I’ve given nothing for what I have taken”

Peter Wehner shares a letter written by his wife's uncle, Frank Keaton, shortly before landing...

June 2014

June 06, 2014

D-day + 70 years

Today is the 70th anniversary of D-Day, when allied troops landed at Normandy on the...

January 2014

January 20, 2014

At his post 29 years after the war

The Japanese soldier who held out in a Philippine jungle for 29 years after the...

August 2013

August 29, 2013

Evangelizing the Nazis

Chad Bird tells the story of Henry Gerecke, a pastor of the Lutheran Church Missouri...

December 2012

December 07, 2012

Pearl Harbor day

Today is the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, plunging the United...

October 2012

October 17, 2012

How Bonhoeffer, his wife, and brother-in-law opposed the Nazis

The New York Review of Books has published a rather remarkable article by Elisabeth Sifton...

December 2011

December 07, 2011

Remember Pearl Harbor

Today is the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which took the...

May 2010

May 14, 2010

The blood of Russians washed away their sins

So what is orthodox about this teaching from an Orthodox patriarch? Church debate in Russia...