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June 2012

June 27, 2012
A new book argues that Israel could have made peace after the Six-Day War; but...
June 27, 2012
Christians today are riding the tiger, and, if the present cultural trajectory goes unchecked, I...
June 26, 2012
Recalling the history of Americans’ and their British ancestors’ dedication to religious freedom offers lessons...
June 25, 2012
Sociologist Peter Berger famously remarked that the United States is a society of (South Asian)...
June 25, 2012
AROUND the corner from Nazareth’s Old City market, in the shadow of 200-year-old Ottoman mansions,...
June 25, 2012
[Friends, this is disturbing and revealing.  A  brave thinker was viciously attacked and now wants...
June 24, 2012
Travelling in America last week, I found American Jews shaking their heads in amazement at...
June 22, 2012
The American Catholic bishops’ “Fortnight for Freedom,” which began yesterday, continues a long tradition of...
June 22, 2012
David Cameron should halt his ‘arrogant’ and deeply unpopular push to redefine marriage as it...
June 15, 2012
Judges and justices who reasoned in favor of same-sex marriage based on social scientists’ “no...
June 14, 2012
This fellow misunderstands the Trinity. Christians do not claim that the Son IS the Father...
June 14, 2012
Two new peer-reviewed studies show that family structure matters and children do best when reared...
June 13, 2012
A new survey of the Jewish population in the Greater New York area contradicts the...
June 13, 2012
The bus station in Afula was packed with local Arabs, Russians and young IDF soldiers...
June 13, 2012
But these arguments, honest or disingenuous, are only part of the picture. The truth is...
June 12, 2012
Plantinga defends two claims throughout his book. One is that there is “a superficial conflict...
June 11, 2012
Muslim background followers of Jesus from various Middle Eastern countries met with their Messianic Jewish...
June 06, 2012
The HHS mandate illustrates three liberal ideological commitments that treat religious freedom as an afterthought....
June 04, 2012
By showing the triumph of the therapeutic over the orthodox in American Christianity, Ross Douthat’s...
June 04, 2012
A book about sex by J. Budziszewski uses natural law arguments to persuade young adults...
June 02, 2012
This new book by Daniel Boyarin confirms, from a Jewish scholar, that differentiation within the...
June 01, 2012
The head of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has called on Arab forces to confront Israel and...

May 2012

May 31, 2012
"They need to know that conquest is coming, that Egypt will be Islamic, and that...
May 25, 2012
To judge from what we are reading and hearing almost every day at the moment,...
May 24, 2012
While Islam opposes same-sex marriage, its opposition to it and to President Obama’s stance is...
May 21, 2012
Recent empirical research suggests that, in virtually every respect, polygamy is socially detrimental—to society in...
May 21, 2012
The year 1880 saw the publication of a book that ranks as the single most...
May 18, 2012
China needs to learn to become a laboratory if it is to survive the environmental...
May 18, 2012
It is all too tempting to describe Bernard Lewis, the distinguished historian of the Islamic...
May 15, 2012
Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development. The subsequent...
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