Is Islam a Violent Religion?
Jihadists killed 98 percent, or 3,612 of the 3,676 of the terror victims counted in the 2022 Global Terrorism Index. Israel’s 1,300 victims of the October 7th Hamas massacre constitute the worst...
View ArticleA Prophet of School Choice
This year is the centennial of J. Gresham Machen’s magnum opus, Christianity and Liberalism. Originally published in 1923, Machen wrote the book in response to a rising tide of theological liberalism...
View ArticleRethinking the “Danger” of Public Christianity
In 1923, a middle-aged professor of New Testament at Princeton Seminary, J. Gresham Machen, produced a book that asserted liberal Protestantism was not simply a defective version of Christianity but a...
View ArticleTowards a Politics of Truth
Philip Wallach has posed a worthwhile challenge to my argument that a return to the “politics of truth and virtue that built the West” will help us restore our political order. In his Law &...
View ArticleA Christian Nation?
Can America become a more Christian nation through public school prayer and higher wages for workers? Senator Josh Hawley offers this counsel in a recent First Things article, “Our Christian Nation.”...
View ArticleWas the Founding Generation “Churched”?
George Hawley is one of the best students of contemporary political conservativism and the Alt-Right. His recent Law & Liberty piece on American Christian nationalism does not disappoint. He and I...
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