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Meet the New Pope, Same as the Old Popes

1 month ago | fusionaier.org | Titus Techera

Titus Techera3 hours ago6 min readMay 20, 2025by Titus TecheraThe papacy has been remarkably often in the news in our rather anti-clerical and increasingly secular age, making history in ways noticed and unnoticed. In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI retired, which is pretty much unheard of. Two weeks later, the papal conclave gave the world the first South American pope, Francis, who spent his 12-year papacy making headlines as well as serious changes to the Catholic Church.
Alternatives to Tariffs – David Hebert

2 months ago | lawliberty.org | David Hebert |Daniel Mahoney |Titus Techera |Graham McAleer

In The New York Times, Oren Cass compared “Liberation Day” to WWII’s D-Day. The analogy conjures powerful imagery of brave, selfless Americans laying down their lives in a fight of good versus evil. Like D-Day, “Liberation Day” has caused suffering and chaos, as even a cursory look at the stock market, bond market, and world headlines will confirm. But to what end? And with the 90-day pause announced, what should the future look like?
A Defense of Constitutional Traditions – Aaron N. Coleman

2 months ago | lawliberty.org | Aaron Coleman |Richard Alan Ryerson |Daniel Mahoney |Titus Techera

Richard Alan Ryerson’s excellent opening essay starts this forum off on a firm footing by explaining the immediate causes of Lexington and Concord. This is not a shock as no scholar has studied the coming of the Revolution in Massachusetts and the role of its famous son, John Adams, more than Ryerson.
Live Not by Lies Is More than a Movie

2 months ago | rlo.acton.org | Titus Techera

Angel Studios is a rare enterprise in American film, trying to put together popularity, prestige, Christianity, and new media. They had a major hit with Sound of Freedom (2023), then aimed for the Oscars with Bonhoeffer (2024).
Political Control Comes For the FTC – Ethan Yang

2 months ago | lawliberty.org | Ethan Yang |Daniel Mahoney |Titus Techera |Graham McAleer

On March 18, 2025, President Trump dismissed the two remaining Democrat Commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission. This represented a shattering of both tradition and legal precedent. If you asked any Republican member of the FTC what he or she thinks about presidential control over independent agencies, you would likely get the same answer that Mark Meador provided at his confirmation hearing.
Diagnosing the Ideological Mind – Theodore Dalrymple

2 months ago | lawliberty.org | Daniel Mahoney |Theodore Dalrymple |Titus Techera |Graham McAleer

Daniel Mahoney’s book is an incisive analysis of ideological thinking and its lasting effects on the West. When, in 1969, I travelled through Afghanistan (this was in the days of good King Zahir Shah, good certainly by comparison with all who came after him), it never occurred to me, callow as I was, that the country might be transformed any time soon into, say, a Scandinavian-style social democracy.
The Dutch Roots of American Liberty – John O. McGinnis

2 months ago | lawliberty.org | Russell Shorto |John O. McGinnis |Titus Techera |Graham McAleer

The most successful city in the world is named after Britain’s most abject failure as a monarch. By the time he was overthrown after three short years on the throne, James II, previously the Duke of York, was a symbol of intolerance, trying to impose Roman Catholicism by decree against the popular wishes of a largely Protestant nation.
That “Ancient Republican Spirit” – Hans Eicholz

2 months ago | lawliberty.org | Hans Eicholz |Richard Alan Ryerson |Titus Techera |Graham McAleer

In his bracing account of the reasons for the clash of American and British forces at Lexington and Concord, Richard Ryerson has touched on several of the most vital themes of both British and American constitutional history, running from Magna Carta (1215) to the Glorious Revolution (1688–89) to the American Revolution (1776).
In the Rubble of Totalitarianism – Law & Liberty - Daniel J. Mahoney

2 months ago | lawliberty.org | Daniel Mahoney |James Patterson |Titus Techera

with Daniel J. Mahoney, hosted by James M. Patterson What Solzhenitsyn called “the ideological lie” was not limited to a single country, government, or movement. And it did not, unfortunately, die off in 1989.
C. S. Lewis and Progressive Pathology

2 months ago | anglican.ink | Titus Techera

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour, / England hath need of thee, she is a fen / of stagnant waters” begins a famous sonnet by William Wordsworth about the spiritual troubles of two hundred years back. Of course, things seem just as catastrophic today as they did in 1802. After the English people voted for Brexit, the elites of England seem to have declared war on the country’s culture and liberties.