Rémi Brague Strikes Again
Rémi Brague, professor emeritus at the Sorbonne, and the subject of a post I wrote on the complicated western history of the Law of God, argues in a recent essay “The Impossibility of Secular Society”...
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Star Wars Trumps Culture Wars in Britain
During the run-up to Easter this year, Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron had the temerity to assert publicly (and on more than one occasion) that Britain is a Christian country, suggesting also...
View ArticleHas Equality Replaced Christianity?
In my previous post, I asked whether our society is “post-Christian” (as is commonly reported), and I suggested that the question might matter to readers of this blog insofar as many of our revered...
View ArticlePolitical Decisions Must Be “Secular”? Since When?
Hovering like a stern schoolmarm over much of our political discourse and decision-making is a sort of lurking censor, monitoring political decisions to ensure that they are based on “secular” grounds...
View ArticleFrance Must Practice a Politics of the Possible
At the beginning of his career, Pierre Manent spoke of political philosophy’s “healing light.” Likewise, he pointed to Cicero as a classical model of a philosophically informed citizen who could speak...
View ArticleThe Secular Fallacy and the War on Common Law
This is the last in a series of essays exploring the origins and implications of the Supreme Court’s inability to deal with religion in a reasonable manner. The Court’s actions themselves are...
View ArticleMainline Radical: On Schrader’s First Reformed
Faith abhors a vacuum. One religion sets and another rises: what human beings worship fluctuates, but that they worship is constant. Idols can replace each other in the temple, yet the gods remain....
View ArticleBloody Religion Versus Bloody Secularism
Invariably when discussing religion and politics, separationists invoke the specter of “religious war” as their argumentative coup de grâce. They’re usually already turning away looking for worthier...
View ArticleSecular Puritanism and the Bladensburg Cross
Justice Gorsuch’s concurrence in the Bladensburg Cross case argued, correctly, that the dispute should have been dismissed for lack of standing. The American Humanist Association’s claim that its...
View ArticleSecularism Cannot Sustain Liberty, a Response to Greg Forster
An author should be grateful for every serious book review and reviewer. Thus, I deeply appreciate the seriousness with which Greg Forster has reviewed in this space my latest book, The Gathering...
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