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 […]
Timeless Truths on Man, Woman, and the Family
The “sexes and the vocations pertaining thereto are not interchangeable,” wrote late Catholic priest Vincent P. Miceli in his 1981 book, The Antichrist: The Final Campaign Against the Savior. Recently republished by Sophia Institute Press, Miceli’s analysis of man and woman and their critical roles in the family remain as relevant today as his previously […]
Jim Jones’ Deadly Social Gospel
Jim Jones’ “sect was doomed to failure for it was founded on the lie that religious Socialism can save men,” wrote late Catholic priest and commentator Vincent P. Miceli in his 1981 book, The Antichrist: The Final Campaign Against the Savior. Recently republished by Sophia Institute Press, this volume’s previously examined incisive analysis of leftist […]
Great Awakening or Great Awokening?
Conservative commentators from various religious backgrounds, such as Jews and Catholics, have in recent years emphasized the need for America to rediscover its moral roots in Biblical belief. William E. Wolfe, a Southern Baptist former official in the administration of President Donald Trump and political activist on Capitol Hill and with organizations such as the Heritage […]
Khaled Abou El Fadl’s Problematic Pulpit
“Colonized Muslims,” such as “immigrant Muslims, don’t like their own race” and “have learned to covet whiteness,” stated UCLA’s Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Professor of Law Khaled Abou El Fadl during a recent webinar. Speaking with Stanford University Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies associate director Farah El-Sharif, the “liberal” Abou El Fadl further documented his […]
Mona Haydar’s Highway to Nowhere (Part Three)
Syrian-American Muslim rapper Mona Haydar has a zealous commitment to “Palestine,” as she obsessively tweeted on May 15, 2018, views that round out her previously discussed anti-American, woke ideologies. Such ideologies undermine the charming image she recently displayed in the PBS documentary series Great Muslim American Road Trip, in which she and her husband traveled […]
Mona Haydar’s Highway to Nowhere (Part Two)
Syrian-American Muslim rapper Mona Haydar’s “songs come from her intersectional identity and sensibilities,” noted a 2022 profile by Northeastern University’s Asian American Center. Indeed, review of her Twitter account and her starring role in the recent PBS documentary series Great Muslim American Road Trip reveals that she affirms numerous, hackneyed “intersectional” beliefs. “Each of her […]