The office of Devil’s Advocate is a historical reality. Created in 1587, the jurist’s task was to poke holes in dossiers proposing the canonization of a new saint. Our easier task is to poke holes in the dominant narratives.
Raymond Brugère, the only French diplomat to resign rather than serve Vichy, argued that France’s collapse in 1940 was engineered by elites who preferred fascist order to republican messiness, much as America’s Business Plot attempted in 1933. That pattern now...
In the great antisemitism debate, are those who accuse others...
St. Paul condemned philargyria (“love of silver”). In our consumer...
Nagasaki Mayor Suzuki’s condemnation of nuclear weapons as “absolute evil”...
Two African stories — one comic, one tragic — collide...
Post-industrial education prizes outcomes over understanding, breeding cheating as a...
With “military Keynesianism,” US foreign policy shifted from weighing war’s...
Lindsey Graham is gone, and the tributes pour in for...
Francis Bacon’s essay “Of Truth” masks his own service to...
On America’s 250th anniversary, it may be time to think...
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