Politics Liberalism as Pluralism: A Conservative Argument. Posted on September 13, 2018One commentbyPaul Barnes There are several possible conservative arguments for the liberal tradition, especially within Anglo-American strains of liberalism. Michael Novak’s book The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, a serious account of the type… View Post
View Post 6 min Politics Immigration Will Not Spark a British Religious Revival Posted on August 6, 2018No commentsbyGraham Davidson There was recent surprise in some quarters, when London was revealed as the least tolerant place in the UK in terms of LGBT acceptance and premarital sex. But a brief… View Post
View Post 27 min Features The Guru Appeal of Jordan Peterson in our Post-Everything World Posted on January 29, 2018January 30, 201871 commentsbyJames A. Lindsay He reaches to people, mostly young men and their sympathizers, with sweeping cultural narratives about masculinity and femininity that seem to explain their crappy lot while offering them a means for redemptive action. View Post
View Post 14 min Politics Does Channel 4’s Documentary Provide the Truth about Muslim Marriage? Posted on December 7, 20174 commentsbyPrakash Shah Channel 4’s documentary, The Truth About Muslim Marriage, presented by Dr. Myriam François-Cerrah of the School of Oriental and African Studies, rests on doubtful claims. View Post
View Post 11 min Politics From the Satanic Verses to Charlie Hebdo Posted on October 26, 2017December 31, 20172 commentsbyKenan Malik This is the transcript of a talk that Kenan Malik gave at the Integrity 20 conference in Brisbane, Australia on October 19th, 2017. First published on Pandaemonium, Malik’s personal website,… View Post
View Post 27 min Features The Fundamentals of Fundamentalism Posted on September 4, 2017October 6, 20172 commentsbyGurwinder Bhogal This is Part 2 of Gurwinder Bhogal’s report. Gurwinder is a writer embedded in Luton, England and has spent the last year and more researching the causes of extremism. Read… View Post
View Post 7 min Features The Sam Harris Outrage Industry Posted on July 11, 2017September 8, 201729 commentsbyMalhar Mali It started for me (and for many) with the angry words frothing out from above that famous cleft-chin. The one which now resides — at least cinematically — under Batman’s… View Post
View Post 9 min Features The Magic Three-Letter Word Posted on July 1, 2017September 8, 2017No commentsbyMaarten Boudry One day when I was in elementary school, I asked my teacher if he believed in God. For weeks, he had been telling us all these nice stories about Yahweh… View Post
View Post 4 min Politics What One Senate Hearing Taught Me About Discussing Islam in America Posted on June 20, 2017September 8, 2017No commentsbyZouhair Mazouz “Mrs. Hirsi Ali, do you still think Islam is a death cult?” shouted a man wearing what looked like a prayer cap. I am not an American citizen, but I… View Post
View Post 13 min Politics Where Now for New Atheists? Posted on May 15, 2017September 9, 201755 commentsbyHelen Pluckrose “New Atheism” is dead. This is what we are told by many people both positive and hostile to the New Atheist approach and to a large extent they are right.… View Post
View Post 11 min Politics 7 Steps to Defeating Islamism Posted on May 2, 2017September 14, 20175 commentsbyJacob Mchangama The steady flow of jihadist terrorist attacks striking European cities highlight the monumental failure of liberal democracies in opposing the great totalitarian menace of our time: Islamism. Yet, the deadly… View Post
View Post 5 min Politics Review Why Accepting Mortality Leads to a Better Life — Living Life in Light of Death Posted on April 19, 2017September 9, 2017One commentbyHelen Pluckrose In Life in Light of Death, James A. Lindsay urges readers to fully, consciously accept that they will cease to exist. He describes the negative social and personal consequences of… View Post
View Post 5 min Features Has Europe Ceased to Exist? Posted on April 4, 2017September 9, 20178 commentsbyKacem El Ghazzali It was on my 15th birthday in the Summer of 2005 in Northern Morocco that, by chance, I got my hands on a series of online articles about the European… View Post
View Post 5 min Culture & Media Politics Reza Aslan’s Cynical Careerism and CNN’s ‘Believer’ Posted on March 6, 2017September 9, 201711 commentsbyV.R. Kahn With the premiere of his CNN series Believer, Reza Aslan has seemingly cemented his position as the go to expert on all things religion for mainstream American news organizations. For… View Post
View Post 10 min Features From Al Qaeda to Atheism Posted on March 2, 2017December 31, 2017No commentsbyRace Hochdorf Below you will find my interview with Yasmine Mohammed. Yasmine first came to my attention when I saw that many of the same people who had liked my Facebook page… View Post
View Post 6 min Features The Trouble with Linda Sarsour Posted on January 27, 2017September 9, 201719 commentsbyMalhar Mali Imagine I believed these things: A conservative religious law is “only misunderstood,” so we shouldn’t worry about the millions living under it in abject oppression due to their homosexuality, lack… View Post