by Mark Beckwith | Apr 6, 2026 | Uncategorized
“We’re going to bring them back to the Stone Age where they belong”. “All Hell will reign down”. So President Trump has said and written in the last few days as the bombardment of Iran continues. Many of us viscerally recoil at the wanton illegality, the unbridled...
by Mark Beckwith | Mar 30, 2026 | Uncategorized
Fifteen years ago, I was on a tour of Robben Island in South Africa, the prison where Nelson Mandela was jailed for most of his 27 years in captivity. The tour guide was a former prisoner who had been locked up for writing a letter to his local newspaper questioning...
by Mark Beckwith | Mar 23, 2026 | Uncategorized
Deus Vult. God wills it, in Latin. That was a rallying cry in 1095 when Pope Urban made plans to dispatch a Christian army to expel Muslims from Jerusalem. It was the first Crusade.There were seven Crusades in all over the next 200 years, most of them failures. But...
by Mark Beckwith | Mar 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
It was a moment of epic furry. I was with a group of my college freshmen classmates at the fraternity where we had just been accepted as pledges. I was invited upstairs into a member’s room, and as soon as I entered, I was set upon by three fraternity...
by Mark Beckwith | Mar 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
Responsibility to Protect. R2P. Responsibility to Protect a doctrine that was endorsed by all UN member states at the 2005 World Summit. After the genocide in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, there was a developing global commitment to require nations to...
