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Contra Mundum — Profiles in Courage Ralph Puckett Jr. December 8, 1926 – April 8, 2024 There is a moment that defines a man. Not the moment he wins — the moment he decides. For Ralph Puckett, that moment came in a replacement depot in Japan in the summer of 1950. He was 23 years old. Fresh out of West Point. No combat experience. No infantry experience to speak of. A colonel named McGee was looking for volunteers for a new Ranger company being stood up to run dangerous missions behind enemy...

CONTRA MUNDUM · LIONHEART LEGACY · ISSUE NO. 2 Justice John Marshall Harlan: the courage to read the Constitution for what it said, not for what his culture wanted it to say. In 1896, seven justices of the United States Supreme Court construed the Fourteenth Amendment to permit precisely what its text forbade. One justice read the Amendment as written, dissented alone, and recorded his reasoning with enough care and courage that it survived six decades of official disregard. The Constitution...

Contra Mundum No. 01 Lionheart Legacy — Profiles in the courage to stand alone How one stubborn bishop in Alexandria saved Christian orthodoxy — and what he can teach every leader alive today. Five exiles. Four emperors. Forty-five years. He never moved an inch. In the fourth century, the Roman Empire was deciding what it believed about Jesus Christ. The question sounds theological. The stakes were civilizational. And for roughly four decades, one man stood between the answer the powerful...