Features

Pondering the war on Iran

March 8, 2026 Marcus Peter 44

A recent appeal from Pope Leo XIV urged patient diplomacy amid rising tensions between Western powers and the Islamic Republic of Iran. His words reflected the Church’s perennial instinct toward peace. Through long decades of […]

Essay

The State of Our Divided Union

February 27, 2026 Marcus Peter 40

I was rather disappointed in the recent State of the Union address, but not for the reasons many readers might think. I believe that most Americans watched it the way one watches a meticulously overproduced […]

The Dispatch

Opinion: Alex Pretti didn’t have to die

January 26, 2026 Marcus Peter 191

By now, the death of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis has been converted into a digital spectacle, parsed, dissected, meme-ified, and moralized across social media platforms. One side is casting Pretti as a canonized martyr against […]

Analysis

Iran, the Quran, and the West

January 17, 2026 Marcus Peter 61

What is unfolding in Iran today is faithful to the Quran. The present regime represents the mature expression of political Islam as articulated through Quranic command, prophetic precedent, and juridical enforcement. The Iranian theocracy emerged […]

Analysis

Scrolling ourselves to death

December 2, 2025 Marcus Peter 16

The recent revelation that Meta employees privately compared themselves to drug pushers while the company suppressed evidence of severe mental health harms to children arrives with the subtlety of a fire alarm in a library. […]