Circling Back to My Grandfather’s Judaism, Seventy Years Later
North American Jews needed time to absorb the scope and originality of the horror they had been spared.
Barbara Kay
· 14 min read
Religion
A collection of 125 posts
My White Privilege Didn’t Save Me. But God Did
Because of my experiences, and the newly fashionable denial of reality being promoted by progressives, I find myself sitting with the politically homeless.
Edie Wyatt
· 12 min read
My Journey from Born Again Christian to the Church of Woke—And Halfway Back Again
How could we even conceive of something like social justice without the moral framework offered by religion?
Will Johnson
· 11 min read
Enlightenment Literature as Foreign Aid
Brian Stewart
· 5 min read
Secular Modernity under Theocratic Assault
Brian Stewart
· 7 min read
The Importance of Blasphemy
Brian Stewart
· 5 min read
The Hagia Sophia Should Remain a Beacon to All
The Hagia Sophia was the brainchild of a unique figure in history.
Lars Brownworth
· 9 min read
Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization—A Review
Gregg finishes the book by concluding that the success of Western civilisation rests on the “four theses” of creation, freedom, justice, and faith.
Adam Wakeling
· 13 min read
Pell’s Pyrrhic Victory
Pell became a public target onto which a deep well of private resentment—much of which was wholly irrelevant to his own conduct—could be directed when the opportunity arose.
RJ Smith
· 6 min read
Convictions and Doubts: The Case of Cardinal Pell
Several factors cast doubt on the accuracy and/or veracity of the complainant’s account.
RJ Smith
· 14 min read
Confucius Got It Right: Giving in to ‘Bias’ Is Part of Living an Ethical Life
No one wants to be “victim” of someone else’s biases, but almost everyone is comforted by the idea that one’s brother, mother, or uncle is heavily biased in their favor.
Stephen T. Asma
· 6 min read
Religious Progressivism
It is not only religious “zealots” who get obsessed about good and evil. All human beings do.
Colin Turfus
· 7 min read
The New York Post Whitewashes the Plight of Egypt's Copts
The least we should expect from Western Christians is that they refuse to become accomplices in our persecution.
Samuel Tadros
· 9 min read
William Peter Blatty's Counter-Countercultural Parable
In her new book Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics (excerpted in Quillette on August 27), essayist and cultural critic Mary Eberstadt documents just how damaging the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and its normalization of divorce in particular, has been to America’s children. She mentions
Kevin Mims
· 13 min read
David Gelernter is Wrong About Ditching Darwin
The last lesson of Gelernter’s piece is that while we shouldn’t judge someone’s arguments by their credentials alone, neither should we give unwarranted credence to those who have impressive credentials, particularly when they pronounce on a field in which they lack expertise.
Jerry A. Coyne
· 11 min read