Category Archives: Historical Essays

Dr. Hugh Hodge: America’s Forgotten Pro-Life Pioneer

On Nov. 6, 1839, Dr. Hugh Hodge gave an introductory lecture at the University of [...]

Pieter Miedema: The Dutch Pastor Who Hid the Hunted

Part 3 in a series on the little-known Christian Holocaust rescuers of World War II [...]

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The children of October 7

When she first picked up the phone, Linoy Al-Ezra could not believe what she was [...]

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The pastors who defied Hitler’s euthanasia regime

Paul Braune watched calmly as the police ransacked his rectory office in Lubetal, Germany. Arrested [...]

Gábor Sztehlo: Hungary’s Lutheran Schindler

Part 2 in a series on the little-known Christian Holocaust rescuers of World War II [...]

James Herriot’s Yorkshire: The World of All Creatures Great and Small

This essay was published in the 2024 print edition of The European Conservative magazine. I [...]

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The World that Ended: 9/11, 25 Years Later

Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, Danny Lewin kissed his wife Anne and [...]

Why I Stand With the Jewish People

I have been asked many times over the past few years why I have focused [...]

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The Lion of Anacostia and the Prince of Preachers

On July 6, 1887, the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass sat down to write a letter [...]

The Dutch Farm That Defied Hitler: One Family’s Courageous Rescue of Hundreds

Part 1 in a series on the little-known Holocaust rescuers of World War II On [...]