The lessons of 1776 for Ukraine’s fight today
The first thing Ken Burns’ The American Revolution makes unmistakably clear is how close we came to losing everything. The second is how impossible it would have been to win without France. The Continental Army…
Loyalty Over Law: Trump’s Ultimatum to the Military
At Quantico this week, Donald Trump addressed the nation’s top military leaders and delivered a statement that might have sounded like a joke: “If you do not like what I am saying, you can leave…
Reclaiming God from Empire: Nonviolence in an Age of Religious Nationalism
I didn’t set out to study nonviolence. Like many, I stumbled upon it in fragments, quotes that refused to leave me, the persistent sense that some ancient wisdom was trying to cut through the noise…
The Disappearing Face of Authority
In Los Angeles, they came at night, black helmets, tactical gear, no names, no insignia. Protesters were seized and loaded into unmarked vans. No one knew who they were. No one could ask. Their faces…