The Narrative and Its Discontents
This mindset is nigh-incomprehensible to people of The Narrative who are used to being guided by a single source of truth enforced by social consensus.
Jacob Falkovich
· 9 min read
Religion
A collection of 129 posts
Carl Th. Dreyer's 'Day of Wrath' and the Power of the Punished
It is difficult to believe in heaven, but it is also difficult not to believe in a heaven.
Matthew Wardour
· 7 min read
China and the Question of Taiwan
In modern-day China, nationalism is at its strongest when dealing with the idea—almost an article of religious faith—that the independent island nation of Taiwan is in fact a Chinese state and must be unified with the mainland as soon as possible.
Aaron Sarin
· 13 min read
God and the Pandemic
For many established religious institutions, the pandemic threatens to exacerbate an ongoing retreat from organized religion.
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
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
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