In Sophia Institute Press’s new children’s book, The Wise Men Who Found Christmas, Catholic journalist and author Raymond Arroyo presents the traditional tale of the Three Wise Men or Magi who visited the newborn Jesus in Bethlehem with important, often overlooked historical details. Beautifully illustrated by Diane Le Feyer, Arroyo’s book brings to light factual questions about who the Magi […]
China, Russia, and War in Ukraine
The United States and its allies currently confront Russian aggression in Ukraine even as threats from China to Taiwan and the wider Pacific region are growing. Former Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy Seth Cropsey founded the Yorktown Institute to focus on American responses to this increasingly dangerous world. He joined Conservative Casual Friday show host Andrew E. […]
Living with Less for Individuals and Societies
Catholic author Laraine Bennett discusses how letting go of material clutter frees individuals and societies in the upcoming Sophia Institute Press book, The Little Way of Living with Less: Learning to Let Go with the Little Flower. Taking her inspiration from the French Catholic saint Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-1897), Bennett offers important lessons for how abstinence from affluence liberates body and […]
New Book Examines Atheism’s False Gods
Recently republished by Sophia Institute Press, the 1971 book The Gods of Atheism by Catholic priest and commentator Vincent P. Miceli offers a comprehensive examination of the errors of leading atheist thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl Marx. Sophia Institute Press spokesperson Kristen Van Uden joined Conservative Casual Friday show host Andrew E. Harrod to discuss the malevolent theological and political influence of these individuals across […]
Katy Faust Places Children before Adults and Their Leftist Ideologies
After Katy Faust‘s parents divorced, she split time between the home of her father and the home of her mother who had repartnered with a woman. Now a Christian mother of four children married to a church pastor, Faust has become a unique voice in advocating children’s rights to be raised by their biological mother and […]
Professor Defeats Sharia Censorship in Academia
Scottsdale Community College political science professor Nicholas Damask returned to Global Patriot Radio to discuss his appeals court victory in defending his academic freedom to teach about the Islamic doctrinal basis of jihad terrorism. The United States Ninth Circuit of Appeals recently upheld a district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit filed by the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) against Damask. […]
America’s Absurd Afghan War (Part Two)
One year after America ended a failed 20-year military campaign in Afghanistan, the essays available online from the 2014 book Allies, Adversaries & Enemies: America’s Increasingly Complex Alliances remain as timely as ever. Herein analysts from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) gloomily foresaw American failure to vanquish the Taliban seven years before the […]
America’s Absurd Afghan War (Part One)
“The United States fought an impossible war in Afghanistan,” wrote the analysts Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Jonathan Schanzer from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) in 2014. The collected essays they edited in Allies, Adversaries & Enemies: America’s Increasingly Complex Alliances, available online, make for ever-relevant reading years later on the one-year anniversary of American […]
Father Miceli’s Muslim Mirage
Late Catholic priest Vincent P. Miceli wrote in his 1981 book, The Antichrist: The Final Campaign Against the Savior, that “religious Muslims are revolting in disgust against Western—and especially American—commercialism and moral decadence.” Over 40 years later, Sophia Institute Press’ republishing of his work, which contains insightful comments on leftist evils such as the cult […]
Taiwan’s Dire Straits
In recent decades, the enormous economic growth of the Communist People’s Republic of China (PRC) has sustained a massive military buildup, bringing closer the day when the PRC might make real its threats to invade or blockade the island of Taiwan and subjugate it into a greater China. Since 1949, when Chinese Nationalists fled to […]