Joseph Loconte, senior Fellow at the Institute on Religion and Democracy, is the author of God, Locke, and Liberty: The Struggle for Religious Freedom in the West. His most recent book is A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War, which is being made into a documentary film series at hobbitwardrobe.com.
The Christians who confounded Pliny, who faced death rather than bow to the idols of their age, embraced a profound imperative from their Teacher and Lord.
This English philosopher had a hand in two of the greatest political revolutions for human freedom in world history. That’s a legacy worth recalling this July 4.
The royal family is not simply an important part of British culture. It represents a valuable political inheritance, one to which Americans owe a great deal.