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June 2012

June 27, 2012

And on the seventh day

A new book argues that Israel could have made peace after the Six-Day War; but...

June 27, 2012

At the Door of the Temple: Religious Freedom and the New Orthodoxy

Christians today are riding the tiger, and, if the present cultural trajectory goes unchecked, I...

June 26, 2012

Religious Freedom: Use It or Lose It

Recalling the history of Americans’ and their British ancestors’ dedication to religious freedom offers lessons...

June 25, 2012

Protect the religious from the secular elite

Sociologist Peter Berger famously remarked that the United States is a society of (South Asian)...

June 25, 2012

The New York Times hikes the Jesus trail

AROUND the corner from Nazareth’s Old City market, in the shadow of 200-year-old Ottoman mansions,...

June 25, 2012

A disappointing but understandable surrender

[Friends, this is disturbing and revealing. A brave thinker was viciously attacked and now wants...

June 24, 2012

Those who fight and those who don’t

Travelling in America last week, I found American Jews shaking their heads in amazement at...

June 22, 2012

Religious Freedom Under Siege: The Bishops Respond

The American Catholic bishops’ “Fortnight for Freedom,” which began yesterday, continues a long tradition of...

June 22, 2012

British gay leaders oppose gay marriage

David Cameron should halt his ‘arrogant’ and deeply unpopular push to redefine marriage as it...

June 15, 2012

Supreme Court Take Notice: Two Sociologists Shift the Ground of the Marriage Debate

Judges and justices who reasoned in favor of same-sex marriage based on social scientists’ “no...

June 14, 2012

I’m a Mormon, Not a Christian

This fellow misunderstands the Trinity. Christians do not claim that the Son IS the Father...

June 14, 2012

The Kids Aren’t All Right: New Family Structures and the “No Differences” Claim

Two new peer-reviewed studies show that family structure matters and children do best when reared...

June 13, 2012

The Beginning of the End for Liberal Jewry

A new survey of the Jewish population in the Greater New York area contradicts the...

June 13, 2012

A poignant scene from Armageddon

The bus station in Afula was packed with local Arabs, Russians and young IDF soldiers...

June 13, 2012

Who decided the French election?

But these arguments, honest or disingenuous, are only part of the picture. The truth is...

June 12, 2012

Alvin Plantinga on the new atheism

Plantinga defends two claims throughout his book. One is that there is “a superficial conflict...

June 11, 2012

Extraordinary meeting in Jerusalem

Muslim background followers of Jesus from various Middle Eastern countries met with their Messianic Jewish...

June 06, 2012

What’s Behind the HHS Mandate?

The HHS mandate illustrates three liberal ideological commitments that treat religious freedom as an afterthought....

June 04, 2012

In defense of Ross Douthat

By showing the triumph of the therapeutic over the orthodox in American Christianity, Ross Douthat’s...

June 04, 2012

Why Sexual Integrity Isn’t Out-of-Date

A book about sex by J. Budziszewski uses natural law arguments to persuade young adults...

June 02, 2012

The Jewish roots of resurrection and incarnation

This new book by Daniel Boyarin confirms, from a Jewish scholar, that differentiation within the...

June 01, 2012

‘Israel’s creation worst catastrophe to hit world’

The head of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has called on Arab forces to confront Israel and...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

Christians Should “Convert, Pay Tribute, or Leave,” Says Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Candidate?

"They need to know that conquest is coming, that Egypt will be Islamic, and that...

May 25, 2012

The new religion trying to drive out the old

To judge from what we are reading and hearing almost every day at the moment,...

May 24, 2012

Marriage in Islam

While Islam opposes same-sex marriage, its opposition to it and to President Obama’s stance is...

May 21, 2012

The Perils of Polygamy

Recent empirical research suggests that, in virtually every respect, polygamy is socially detrimental—to society in...

May 21, 2012

Did Muhammad exist?

The year 1880 saw the publication of a book that ranks as the single most...

May 18, 2012

What Israel can teach China

China needs to learn to become a laboratory if it is to survive the environmental...

May 18, 2012

The Life of Bernard Lewis

It is all too tempting to describe Bernard Lewis, the distinguished historian of the Islamic...

May 15, 2012

Judaism’s Sexual Revolution: Why Judaism Rejected Homosexuality

Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development. The subsequent...

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