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By PATRICK MCGREEVY

 Imagine this: A man with an automatic rifle kills a woman in downtown Chicago. He runs into a church, with police in pursuit, bolts the door behind and holds 30 worshipers at gunpoint. The police chief arrives and demands the gunman surrender. When...

By PATRICK MCGREEVY

Democracy don’t rule the worldYou better get that in your headThis world is ruled by violenceBut I guess that’s better left unsaid.— Bob Dylan  In the film “Ender’s Game,” Harrison Ford’s character tells a boy who had been bullied that, when you...

By PATRICK MCGREEVY

Fifteen years after the 1607 founding of the New World’s first permanent British settlement at Jamestown, a group of Powhatan warriors attacked white settlers, killing almost 350. The brutality of the attack stunned settlers, and inspired the...

By PATRICK MCGREEVY

Before the Civil War, many U.S. citizens believed they lived in a land of freedom and opportunity. They knew it wasn’t perfect, but if they had experienced, or expected to experience, those benefits personally, it was priceless. Many others had...

By PATRICK MCGREEVY

The men known as the “Founding Fathers” of the U.S. were outraged at the very idea of monarchy because “the rule of one,” they believed, leaves everyone else more or less unfree. If they were right, it is curious that so many Christian Americans today...