Month: July 2020

Robert Reilly’s America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding is remarkable for its depth and richness of insight and wisdom. Though I was familiar with Reilly’s past work, including his books through Ignatius Press, […]

Robert Reilly’s America on Trial is an undeniably timely book—admittedly more so than either he or Ignatius Press could have expected. The spring and summer of 2020 have already witnessed civil and not-so-civil unrest across […]

On January 22, 1973—a day that will live in infamy—our nation’s Supreme Court declared that our national Constitution prohibits our government from protecting the lives of prenatal children against elective abortion. The Court held that […]

In America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding, Robert Reilly brings a gargantuan array of material into manageable scope, and marshals it—effectively, in the main—to offer a defense of the American Founding “and show […]

In 2019 I participated in a conference in Rome at which one of the keynote speakers discussed the rise of unbelief in the West and how the Catholic Church ought to address it. Maintaining that […]

In America on Trial, Robert Reilly, an American Catholic and patriot, presents the American Founding as “young and beautiful,” as a noble and just “city in speech.” By these Platonic characterizations, I mean two things. […]

There is a consequential debate going on right now in intellectual Catholic circles that ought to interest all Catholics. It can be found in the (often digital) pages of First Things, Law and Liberty, Public […]

Forgive me, readers, for fast-forwarding to the end. But Robert Reilly’s closing salvo in his new book, America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding, are rallying words for us. As we watch the world—and […]

In logic, there is a fallacy called the “no true Scotsman.” The trick of it is, examples to the contrary are illegitimately dismissed. If I were to claim, “No Scotsman runs from a fight,” and […]