Joseph Loconte
Cicero’s Analysis Of Decline Offers Lessons For The West
The great statesman and orator traced the disintegration of the Republic to Rome’s desperate lack of principled leadership
Undeterred, Erdogan Usurps Ataturk’s Legacy
Turkish democracy remains under threat despite Erdogan’s election setback
Man Without God
When did the West become post-Christian?
Constitutional Ignoramus
In attempting to answer his question Why Tolerate Religion, Chicago philosopher Brian Leiter wilfully neglects the impact of the Judaeo-Christian tradition on Western civilisation
A Nation of Heretics
Religious belief is on the rise in the US but not of the traditional sort. Rather, a self-serving, navel-gazing, pseudo-Christianity has taken hold
Academic Ideals
Amid the higher costs for university tuition online degree courses are gaining traction. Plato and Cicero would be turning in their grave
Obama v Madison
Obama’s edict that religious organisations must contribute to birth control has wantonly undermined the sanctity of religious conscience
Stott’s Gospel
Dishonest and distasteful journalists have co-opted the late, great evangelical Reverend for their own, secular causes
Burke’s Warning
History may remember the Arab Spring’s “noble revolutionaries” in the same terms as those of the French Revolution — utopian and doomed to failure
Obama’s Fantasies
Barack Obama’s utopian daydreams lack moral courage, and are a gift to his enemies
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?