Marc LiVecche

3 weeks ago | frc.org | Ken Blackwell |Marc LiVecche |David Closson

On today’s program, hosted by Joseph Backholm: Ken Blackwell, FRC’s Senior Fellow for Human Rights and Constitutional Governance, dissects the war of words between President Trump and Elon Musk and weighs in on whether the former DOGE chief’s criticisms about the Big Beautiful Bill are valid.

1 month ago | providencemag.com | Marc LiVecche

The obituary superlatives helped tell the tale of the late Pontiff. A search of the most common words or themes used to describe Pope Francis testifies to a “pontificate of the heart” characterized by “personal warmth,” “mercy,” “fraternity,” “humility,” “compassion,” and an emphasis on “inclusion,” the suspension of judgment, and peace. These characteristics often served his mission well.

1 month ago | juicyecumenism.com | Marc LiVecche

From 335 BC to 1521, at different points across nearly two millennia, four great civilizations lost a war and then ceased to exist. There’s nothing particularly anomalous about a people going extinct. Throughout history, civilizations have disappeared in a number of ways. Sometimes, the catalyst is natural, an act of God or the gods: earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, plagues, and the like. Sometimes, human aggressors are to blame.

1 month ago | providencemag.com | Marc LiVecche

Eighty years ago, as news of Germany’s surrender spread, good people throughout Europe and the wider world flowed into the streets and open places to celebrate the end of Nazism and Hitler’s fever dream of blood and soil nationalism. To be sure, there was still much fighting to be done in the Asia-Pacific—though, happily, it would prove to be much less fighting than expected. True, also, a full accounting of the horrors of the death camps was yet to be grasped.

1 month ago | providencemag.com | Marc LiVecche

Eighty years ago, as news of Germany’s surrender spread, good people throughout Europe and the wider world flowed into the streets and open places to celebrate the end of Nazism and Hitler’s fever dream of blood and soil nationalism. To be sure, there was still much fighting to be done in the Asia-Pacific—though, happily, it would prove to be much less fighting than expected. True, also, a full accounting of the horrors of the death camps was yet to be grasped.