Robert Royal is a Visiting Fellow and Emeritus St. John Henry Newman Visiting Chair in Catholic Studies at Thomas More College. He is founder and president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C. and Editor-in-Chief of The Catholic Thing. His most recent books are The God That Did Not Fail: How Religion Built and Sustains the West, A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century, and Columbus and the Crisis of the West.