Casey Chalk is a senior contributor at The Federalist and an editor and columnist at The New Oxford Review. He is the author of three books, including most recently Wisdom from the Cross: How Jesus' Seven Last Words Teach Us How to Live and Die Well.
Posts by Casey Chalk
January 26, 2024
Americans are killing themselves in record numbers. According to a study published in August by the Kaiser Family Foundation, between 2011 and 2022, more than half a million lives were lost to suicide, with 2022 showing the highest number of deaths on record, an increase of 16%.
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January 11, 2024
Beginning in mid-October, Panamanian activists, led by the militant leftist labor union SUNTRACS, brought much of Panama to a standstill, blocking roads and filling Panama City with daily demonstrations against a copper-mining contract with Canadian firm First Quantum.
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July 13, 2022
Sisyphus was the first conservative,
Claremont Review of Books editor William Voegeli wryly observes, because the lot of the conservative is one of short-lived, temporary victories. Conservatives certainly have no shortage of examples.
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March 09, 2022
It has become commonplace in America’s elite institutions to attack and delegitimize our forebears for various crimes, some of which are undoubtedly real, while others are more imagined and anachronistic. As for the former, we can cite the fact that many Americans—including some of our greatest heroes—were slave owners and exploiters of indigenous Americans.
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