Four hundred years after the battles of Lepanto on October 7, 1571, and Vienna on September 11-12, 1683, these dates still rankle in the jihadist mind. For it was through these battles that the navies and armies of the West threw back almost fatal attacks on their civilization. In 1571,...

The spirit of the Old West--explorers, adventurers, cowboys, pioneers--is not dead.

Michael Novak of AEI delivered the fourth of the 2008-2009 Bradley Lectures on December 8.

Review of Decisive Battles: Over 20 Key Naval and Military Encounters from 479 BC to the Present, by John Colvin.

The two greatest naval forces ever assembled--280 ships in the Turkish Armada, some 212 on the Christian side--came into each other's sight on a brilliant morning on October 7.

A recounting of two pivotal battles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that repelled Islamist invaders of Europe illuminates today's cultural and religious confrontations.

It looks as though Europe is set to repeat in the 21st century the disasters of the 20th, but we very much need Europe to be successful--and soon.

My proposal is that, at its most fundamental level, this "European problem" is best understood in moral and cultural terms.