After yet another murder committed by a mentally ill person with a history of police contact, it has become undeniable that our country has an issue with letting mentally damaged people roam the streets until they violently snap. Police said Erin Piancetti, a new mother, was recently murdered in New York City, apparently stabbed to […]

On Sunday afternoon, I was at a picnic with the other parents in our homeschool co-op. One new couple was almost comically typical of our beautiful little Catholic bubble: She had been a third-grade teacher at a classical Catholic school. He worked in the military-industrial complex. As toddlers toddled around us, our grade-school daughters walked […]

History illuminates the present. I’ve been reading Stephen Kotkin’s widely and justly praised multivolume biography of Josef Stalin and have encountered many passages that illuminate the present. I learned, for example, that Stalin met the exiled Vladimir Lenin more than a decade before the October 1917 revolution, and that by the early 1920s until his […]

Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler told Congress that Maryland's sanctuary law blocks his deputies from cooperating with ICE on detainer requests.