Loyalty by Oath: An Essay on the Extortion of Love

Nothing is more mysterious than loyalty. To be loyal is to love, to be true to something. Who knows what prompts the movings of the spirit? Who knows what makes a man ready to lay down his life? If a man were able to know even himself, and the frame of his own love and loyalty, he would know more than most of us do.

The times are dangerous. We are engaged in a great world war, a war that tests the foundations of our society, economy, and government, against a power that threatens values we ...