America on Trial

We have arrived at an ominous moment, when the very legitimacy of the American political order has come under systematic assault. America is on trial in ways that few of us could have imagined even […]

America is on trial at the moment, though the weird and violent mix of real and imagined and outright manufactured wrongs makes the proceedings look more like something concocted by Kafka rather than a true […]

Is the American Founding really the ultimate cause of our woes? Was the Declaration of Independence the harbinger of Roe v. Wade, Obergefell, and our culture that celebrates will over reason, reason hermetically sealed from […]

I hope Patrick J. Deneen and Robert R. Reilly can appreciate the irony. Both men—the former a professor of political science at Notre Dame, and the latter the director of Voice of America—are of Irish […]

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 […]