Edwin Benson 
Those who optimistically elected Zohran Mamdani as Mayor of New York City should take note. Despite his smiling and easygoing persona, the thirty-four-year-old democratic socialist is the head of a radical movement that calls for changes that are much more socialist than democratic. Mr. Mamdani’s victory has emboldened his radical supporters to … Read more
Samantha Fulnecky’s zero grade on a short essay symbolizes everything that is wrong with the modern university. She did not receive a zero because she did not submit the assignment, because her writing was incomprehensible or because it failed to address the subject at hand. She got a zero because she referenced … Read more
An international legal struggle may be starting that could test the U.S. government’s determination to resist European attempts to dictate legal jurisdiction and procedure. In March 2025, the environmental activist group, Greenpeace USA, was found liable and ordered by a North Dakota court to pay over $660 million to the Texas-based corporation, … Read more
Loneliness is often associated with older people. It is easy to imagine an eighty-five-year-old woman in an empty and silent house, having only the company of a radio or television. Her husband and many of her friends are deceased. For the most part, she begins and ends her days alone, knowing that … Read more
China’s problems can be boiled down to two related issues: underpopulation and overproduction. Both are easy to trace to government policies and Communist ideology. A Population Disaster A recent article in Fortune spelled out the population issues in stark and simple terms. “China may be the only nation that could rival America’s … Read more
“They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand” Job 8:22. Perhaps no organization has been more consistently a “dwelling of the wicked” than Planned Parenthood. Since its establishment in 1921 as the American Birth Control League, hatred for the unborn has been … Read more
Never underestimate the desire of the left to obliterate the influence of Christianity, and particularly that of Our Lady. No battlefield is too small nor tradition too cherished to be a target. For its Revolution to succeed, the left must obliterate any official notice of the Mother of Our Lord. That is … Read more
The following article is one of a four-part series that features the life of Augustus Pugin, the renowned English Catholic architect of the nineteenth century. When examining the great Catholic figures, architects seldom rank among them. Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin is a name known to relatively few, but his influence is all … Read more
The doctrines related to Purgatory are among those most neglected by the Catholics today. It is, indeed, the rare homily that instructs the faithful about this vital topic. Far too many Catholics think that the Church abandoned the doctrine as a result of the Second Vatican Council. This condition exists despite the … Read more
The people of Green Charter Township have thwarted the desires of both the State of Michigan and the Chinese government. The state has now shelved a plan to build a massive Chinese battery plant in the rural western Michigan township about an hour’s drive north of Grand Rapids. The Chinese Are Coming! … Read more