Cuba Can Buy From the World. It Just Can’t Pay

Cuba Can Buy From the World. It Just Can’t Pay

For over sixty years, Havana has offered the world one alibi for Cuba’s misery: El bloqueo, the American embargo. It is a marvelous excuse for its failure, since it keeps blaming a country ninety miles away. The evidence, however, proves the contrary. Havana insists the American embargo starved the island. But Cuba trades with half … Read more

A Deeper Look at the New Catholic Converts in France

A Deeper Look at the New Catholic Converts in France

The steady rise in adult Catholic converts across the West over the past five years has made headlines and given hope to the faithful. Nowhere has this caused a bigger stir than in France, the first-born daughter of the Church. Naturally, most of the attention has been on the numbers. According to the French Bishops’ … Read more

Why Does China Need to Persecute Those Abroad Who Oppose Communism?

Why Does China Need to Persecute Those Abroad Who Oppose Communism?

Most despotic regimes punish dissent inside their borders. What makes the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime different is that it represses its citizens in other countries. Freedom House, the Washington-based democracy watchdog, has concluded that China runs “the most sophisticated, global and comprehensive campaign of transnational repression in the world.” Indeed, the CCP is determined … Read more

Three Reasons Not to Fool With God’s Time

Three Reasons Not to Fool With God’s Time

The issue is time. Daylight Saving Time. Congress is again attempting to make it permanent. If made law, there will be no more falling back and springing forward on the calendar. We will forever prolong the day with an additional hour of artificially perceived sunlight in the evening and languish in the morning darkness. Daylight … Read more

Yet One More Tribute for a True American Knight, John W. Ripley

Yet One More Tribute for a True American Knight, John W. Ripley

Since its inception, the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) has admired and promoted the ideals of chivalry. This rigorous code of conduct and way of life provides a much-needed model in a world without honor and virtue. Medieval knighthood still captures the American imagination. Youth are especially attracted to … Read more