Once you have known love, lived in its light, what would you do rather than surrender it? Ian Buruma’s engaging new history Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 (2026) examines the compromises that Germans ...

Every May 1, the Church celebrates the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, instituted in 1955 by Venerable Pius XII. Pius reminded workers that “the humble craftsman of Nazareth … embodies before God and ...

At sixteen, Helmuth Hübener discovered how much information Nazi propaganda concealed from the German people. With a few ...

Five years ago potent Publisher Alfred Hugenberg, at that time head of an ardent Nationalist Party, was picked by many a wiseacre as the likeliest man to stop the march to power of Adolf Hitler.

Joseph Mary Plunkett, who famously married Grace Gifford on the eve of his execution, faced the firing squad on May 4, 1916. If there was one Renaissance man involved in the Easter Rising, it was Joe ...