John Vile

John Vile

Op-ed contributor

Patriotism vs. nationalism

Long before the U.S. became a superpower, we Americans have thought of ourselves as special. Puritan fathers expressed the wish that we would be “a city upon a hill.”

Patriotism vs. nationalism

Jan. 6 hearing: Mike Pence and the lions' den

In what seemed an incongruous moment, at the end of its third hearing, the committee asked Greg Jacob, Pence’s top White House lawyer, how his faith guided him as he waited with the vice president in a secure location after being pursued by a mob who had erected a gallows on the Capitol grounds.

Jan. 6 hearing: Mike Pence and the lions' den