Volume 76 Issue 8 August 2026

Scene from the Legend of the True Cross, c.14th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain.

Making Crusading Great Again?

Would St Augustine have considered the US attack on Iran a just war? The pope and the vice president are split on the matter.

Portrait of Hipólito da Costa holding a copy of the Correio Braziliense, c.1810. Acervo do Ministério das Relações Exteriores - Coordenação-Geral de Patrimônio Histórico (CGPH/MRE). Public Domain.

The Free Brazilian Press

Brazil’s first newspaper was published from London by an exiled Freemason on first-name terms with British royalty. Who was Hipólito da Costa and what was his news?

Franklin D. Roosevelt shortly before his public address in Chautauqua, New York, 14 August 1936. Associated Press/Alamy.

1936’s Promise of Peace: Roosevelt on Campaign

In August 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a boldly pacifist campaign speech, promising no American would have to go to war. It had seemed a realistic promise.