Ecclesia et Civitas

Brexit, Trump, and Identity

August 8, 2016 James Kalb 0

Brexit and the Trump movement, with their emphasis on  the decisive importance of national identity, show that explicit identity politics has spread to all points of the political compass. That’s not surprising, since identity is […]

General

Who watches the watchers?

August 4, 2016 Sandra Miesel 0

“You are being watched. The government has a secret system—a machine—that spies on you every hour of every day.”— Opening monologue, Person of Interest What if government’s already vast data-gathering resources were deployed by an […]

Analysis

The Pope and Perón

August 3, 2016 Dr. Samuel Gregg 3

Until Jorge Bergoglio was elected pope in 2013, the most famous Argentine of modern times was an army officer and politician named Juan Domingo Perón. Perón served as Argentina’s president from 1946-1955 and 1973-1974. Although […]