Welcome back, one and all, to another great year at Jesuit. While I hope your summer was a relaxing one, it has been far from calm across the world. Both at home and abroad, the summer season has been... eventful. Here, we'll look first at the world stage and then the domestic U.S. political scene.
Foreign Events
Ukraine's war effort is...
My previous academic engagement with critical literature came in the form of an all-encompassing criticism of government action as practically impossible and wrong, nearly always and everywhere. This viewpoint, while in my eyes not entirely false, is way too simplistic. Particularly in the case of my article, The Raging Leviathan, the argument was at times convoluted and necessitates a...
So, we have yet another election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Most Americans hate this fact. They hate that they have to choose between a man unable to use a staircase or talk, and a man who doesn't seem to understand what the words "overthrowing the government is bad" means. How'd we get here? I'll clue you in,...
On February 21, 2024, the Jesuit J.W.A.C. (Junior World Affairs Council) competed in its first competition of 2024, the Dallas Area Academic World Quest. Jesuit's team competed against 95 other teams from schools all over the Dallas area, all in the hopes of winning and going to nationals in Washington D.C. Also, the Jesuit J.W.A.C. team was pleasantly surprised...
April 10, 2024 marked Eid-Al-Fitr, one of the holiest holidays in Islam, when the end of the Islamic month of Ramadan is reached. During this day, over a billion Muslims spend time with their families, visiting mosques for Eid prayers, and they often feast, making up for the fasting during Ramadan. It is meant to be a time of...
Welcome to the last article in my quest to turn The Roundup into Israeli state media. We've covered around 100 years of history to some extent or another by now. But this article was always meant to be the ultimate one of the series, and all the previous ones were really meant to lay a foundation for this article....
"America's ground forces will have to be prepared to perform the tasks Caesar assigned to his Legions - win wars, restore order, and preserve a stable and prosperous peace... wherever direct American influence is required."
The preceding quote was written in 1997 by veteran U.S. Army Colonel Douglas A. MacGregor, who wrote the groundbreaking book Breaking the Phalanx: A New...
The events of October 7th saw jarring cruelty against Israeli civilians in Hamas's unprovoked invasion, and a subsequent response from the international community that continues to limit Israel's options with retaliation. This war has proven, above all else, that people inside and outside the US know nothing of the history of the region. So in this series of articles,...
