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Despite his attempts to consolidate power in Syria and to transform his image from terrorist to statesman, Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government cannot last unless he meets his commitments to pluralism.
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Al-Sharaa’s House of Cards Teeters Towards Collapse - Providence
Despite his attempts to consolidate power in Syria and to transform his image from terrorist to statesman, Ahmed al-Sharaa's government cannot last unless he meets his commitments to pluralism
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October 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Despite his attempts to consolidate power in Syria and to transform his image from terrorist to statesman, Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government cannot last unless he meets his commitments to pluralism.
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How can Christians hold in tension being commanded to exhibit universal love irrespective of national boundaries with the need to love the particular families, communities, and nations into which we are born?
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C.S. Lewis and the Preaching of Patriotism - Providence
How can Christians hold in tension being commanded to exhibit universal love irrespective of national boundaries with the need to love the particular families, communities, and nations into which we a...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
How can Christians hold in tension being commanded to exhibit universal love irrespective of national boundaries with the need to love the particular families, communities, and nations into which we are born?
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Trump’s pivot to apparently full-throated support for Ukraine underscores a core principle of his “America First” doctrine: non-ideological flexibility in pursuit of U.S. national security objectives.
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What ‘America First’ Means for Ukraine and Europe - Providence
Trump's pivot to apparently full-throated support for Ukraine underscores a core principle of his “America First” doctrine: non-ideological flexibility in pursuit of U.S. national security objectives
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October 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Trump’s pivot to apparently full-throated support for Ukraine underscores a core principle of his “America First” doctrine: non-ideological flexibility in pursuit of U.S. national security objectives.
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Since 1948, every flare-up of the Israel-Arab conflict has produced a worse situation for the Palestinians. Only a lasting peace settlement that acknowledges Israel’s right to exist can stop the cycle - James Rowell
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The Many Failed Attempts at Peace & Palestinian Statehood - Providence
Since 1948, every flare-up of the Israel-Arab conflict has produced a worse situation for the Palestinians. Only a lasting peace settlement that acknowledges Israel's right to exist can stop the cycle...
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October 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Since 1948, every flare-up of the Israel-Arab conflict has produced a worse situation for the Palestinians. Only a lasting peace settlement that acknowledges Israel’s right to exist can stop the cycle - James Rowell
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Without a theological foundation, the idea of intrinsic human rights is incoherent providencemag.com/2025/10/from...
From Where Do Human Rights Come?: Michael Perry and the Religious Question - Providence
Without a theological foundation, the idea of intrinsic human rights is incoherent
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October 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Without a theological foundation, the idea of intrinsic human rights is incoherent providencemag.com/2025/10/from...
While people of good faith can disagree about the war in Gaza, the selective outrage towards at Israel betrays the anti-Western ideology underpinning so much of the support for Palestine.
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The Selective Outrage of Gaza Activists - Providence
While people of good faith can disagree about the war in Gaza, the selective outrage towards at Israel betrays the anti-Western ideology underpinning so much of the support for Palestine
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October 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
While people of good faith can disagree about the war in Gaza, the selective outrage towards at Israel betrays the anti-Western ideology underpinning so much of the support for Palestine.
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The work of a community of Orthodox Christians in the Caucuses to rebuild a ruined cathedral speaks to the broader quest for Western Christians to reconnect with their religious heritage, writes Stefano Arroque
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The Rebirth of a Cathedral - Providence
The work of a community of Orthodox Christians in the Caucuses to rebuild a ruined cathedral speaks to the broader quest for Western Christians to reconnect with their religious heritage
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October 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The work of a community of Orthodox Christians in the Caucuses to rebuild a ruined cathedral speaks to the broader quest for Western Christians to reconnect with their religious heritage, writes Stefano Arroque
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While spreading democracy may be an admirable goal, the US must be clear-eyed about the costs of promoting American-style government in parts of the world with no history of democracy. providencemag.com/2025/10/the-...
The Truman Doctrine and NATO Enlargement: Rejecting Realism - Providence
While spreading democracy may be an admirable goal, the US must be clear-eyed about the costs of promoting American-style government in parts of the world with no history of democracy
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October 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
While spreading democracy may be an admirable goal, the US must be clear-eyed about the costs of promoting American-style government in parts of the world with no history of democracy. providencemag.com/2025/10/the-...
Christians should consider themselves “priests of history,” as people living in our own time time, but connected to other Christians and the church across time.
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Priests of History: How Christians Should View the Past in a Secular Age - Providence
Christians should consider themselves “priests of history,” as people living in our own time time, but connected to other Christians and the church across time.
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October 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Christians should consider themselves “priests of history,” as people living in our own time time, but connected to other Christians and the church across time.
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Zelensky cannot replicate Syngman Rhee’s Korean War brinkmanship, but he holds different cards that could underpin a transactional strategy to secure a limited yet viable US commitment in a future war settlement.
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Zelensky Does Indeed Have ‘Cards’—But Can He Negotiate with Trump? - Providence
Zelensky has the potential to secure a limited yet viable US commitment in a future war settlement, but only with the right bargaining strategy
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September 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Zelensky cannot replicate Syngman Rhee’s Korean War brinkmanship, but he holds different cards that could underpin a transactional strategy to secure a limited yet viable US commitment in a future war settlement.
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"This week marks the anniversary of the bloodiest day in American history. In September 1862, at small town in western Maryland, nearly 23,000 young Americans were killed or wounded."
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Antietam & the Moral Clarity of the Emancipation Proclamation - Providence
This week marks the anniversary of the bloodiest day in American history. In September 1862, at small town in western Maryland, nearly 23,000 young Americans were killed or wounded.
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September 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"This week marks the anniversary of the bloodiest day in American history. In September 1862, at small town in western Maryland, nearly 23,000 young Americans were killed or wounded."
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Despite his many crimes against the people of Iraq and the Middle East more broadly, Saddam has come to symbolize resistance to the US-led world order across the Arab world - providencemag.com/2025/09/how-...
How Saddam Hussein Came to Symbolize Anti-Americanism in the Middle East - Providence
Despite his many crimes against the people of Iraq and the Middle East more broadly, Saddam has come to symbolize resistance to the US-led world order across the Arab world
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September 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Despite his many crimes against the people of Iraq and the Middle East more broadly, Saddam has come to symbolize resistance to the US-led world order across the Arab world - providencemag.com/2025/09/how-...
Christian realists must hold in tension that justice requires returning Ukraine to its pre-invasion borders, but that this may prove to be impossible - providencemag.com/2025/09/ukra...
Ukraine: Stalemate or Justice? - Providence
Christian realists must hold in tension that justice requires returning Ukraine to its pre-invasion borders, but that this may prove to be impossible
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September 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Christian realists must hold in tension that justice requires returning Ukraine to its pre-invasion borders, but that this may prove to be impossible - providencemag.com/2025/09/ukra...
Despite his many crimes against the people of Iraq and the Middle East more broadly, Saddam has come to symbolize resistance to the US-led world order - providencemag.com/2025/09/how-...
How Saddam Hussein Came to Symbolize Anti-Americanism in the Middle East - Providence
Despite his many crimes against the people of Iraq and the Middle East more broadly, Saddam has come to symbolize resistance to the US-led world order
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September 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Despite his many crimes against the people of Iraq and the Middle East more broadly, Saddam has come to symbolize resistance to the US-led world order - providencemag.com/2025/09/how-...
America’s exceptionalism is rooted in its enduring telos: to serve as a moral force for good against evil, protecting the vulnerable and countering tyranny globally -
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What Makes America Exceptional? - Providence
America’s exceptionalism is rooted in its enduring telos: to serve as a moral force for good against evil, protecting the vulnerable and countering tyranny globally
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September 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
America’s exceptionalism is rooted in its enduring telos: to serve as a moral force for good against evil, protecting the vulnerable and countering tyranny globally -
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Conservatives must become more attentive to how the use and abuse of the English language shapes politics and culture -
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How Liberals Hijacked Language - Providence
Conservatives must become more attentive to how the use and abuse of the English language shapes politics and culture
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September 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Conservatives must become more attentive to how the use and abuse of the English language shapes politics and culture -
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Without a principled separation between spiritual and civil authority, as Calvin envisioned, we risk forsaking the restraint and representative justice that anchor a free and ordered society -
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Calvin, Theocracy, and Holy War - Providence
Without a principled separation between spiritual and civil authority, as Calvin envisioned, we risk forsaking the restraint and representative justice that anchor a free and ordered society
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September 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Without a principled separation between spiritual and civil authority, as Calvin envisioned, we risk forsaking the restraint and representative justice that anchor a free and ordered society -
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Without the libraries of mind necessary to sustain deep thought, built up over a lifetime of reading, we will never be able to stretch beyond our finitude to a properly-ordered understanding of God and man -
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To Read Is Human - Providence
Without the libraries of mind necessary to sustain deep thought, built up over a lifetime of reading, we will never be able to stretch beyond our finitude to a properly-ordered understanding of God an...
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September 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Without the libraries of mind necessary to sustain deep thought, built up over a lifetime of reading, we will never be able to stretch beyond our finitude to a properly-ordered understanding of God and man -
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As the global threat environment worsens, it is crucial that Americans believe that the founding ideals of their nation are still worth fighting for - providencemag.com/2025/09/do-a...
Do Americans Still See Themselves as the ‘Good Guys’? - Providence
As the global threat environment worsens, it is crucial that Americans believe that the founding ideals of their nation are still worth fighting for
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September 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
As the global threat environment worsens, it is crucial that Americans believe that the founding ideals of their nation are still worth fighting for - providencemag.com/2025/09/do-a...
In “Teaching the Virtues,” David Hein argues that education must be aimed at cultivating the moral imagination necessary for the formation of virtuous citizens. providencemag.com/2025/09/virt...
Virtue and the Classical Education Renaissance - Providence
In "Teaching the Virtues," David Hein argues that education must be aimed at cultivating the moral imagination necessary for the formation of virtuous citizens
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September 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
In “Teaching the Virtues,” David Hein argues that education must be aimed at cultivating the moral imagination necessary for the formation of virtuous citizens. providencemag.com/2025/09/virt...
As other Western nations yield to pressure to recognize a Palestinian state, the US must have the courage to stand alone against Hamas’s regime of terror - Ed Tarnowski
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As the West Capitulates to Hamas, America Must Have the Moral Resolve to Stand Alone - Providence
As other Western nations yield to pressure to recognize a Palestinian state, the US must have the courage to stand alone against Hamas's regime of terror
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September 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
As other Western nations yield to pressure to recognize a Palestinian state, the US must have the courage to stand alone against Hamas’s regime of terror - Ed Tarnowski
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The best way to destabilize Iran's theocratic regime is to support the Iranian people in their struggle for freedom of religion, speech, and assembly - Tzvi Kahn
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Using Human Rights as a Weapon Against Iran - Providence
The best way to destabilize Iran's theocratic regime is to support the Iranian people in their struggle for freedom of religion, speech, and assembly
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September 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The best way to destabilize Iran's theocratic regime is to support the Iranian people in their struggle for freedom of religion, speech, and assembly - Tzvi Kahn
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The monsters of this world, whether Khrushchev in 1959 or Putin today, must be dealt with. But there should never be confusion about what they are - @markdtooley.bsky.social providencemag.com/2025/08/meet...
Meeting Monsters? - Providence
The monsters of this world, whether Khrushchev in 1959 or Putin today, must be dealt with. But there should never be confusion about what they are.
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August 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The monsters of this world, whether Khrushchev in 1959 or Putin today, must be dealt with. But there should never be confusion about what they are - @markdtooley.bsky.social providencemag.com/2025/08/meet...
The American people understand that Beijing is the problem, not Taiwan, and that alienating allies empowers America’s enemies - providencemag.com/2025/08/the-...
The New Right is Wrong about Taiwan - Providence
The American people understand that Beijing is the problem, not Taiwan, and that alienating allies empowers America’s enemies
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August 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The American people understand that Beijing is the problem, not Taiwan, and that alienating allies empowers America’s enemies - providencemag.com/2025/08/the-...
American adoptions of foreign-born children have declined by 94% since 2004, weakening the US’s cultural and familial connections with nations around the world - providencemag.com/2025/08/inte...
International Adoption Trends Epitomize America’s Declining Soft Power - Providence
American adoptions of foreign-born children have declined by 94% since 2004, weakening the US's cultural and familial connections with nations around the world
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August 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
American adoptions of foreign-born children have declined by 94% since 2004, weakening the US’s cultural and familial connections with nations around the world - providencemag.com/2025/08/inte...