Almost everyone in the intellectual debate over the future of American conservatism these days seems to recognize that the 17th-century English philosopher John Locke is key to its resolution. At one time, Locke was the unquestioned inspiration for the ideals behind America’s Declaration…
Joe Biden’s secularism pervades the federal government. He is rooting out all the rules and regulations that his predecessor established in defense of religious freedom. Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rescinded Donald Trump’s rule…
I read in the New York Times a guide to not buying anything new this Christmas. I expect this will make department store owners happy, after a year and a half of recession from the pandemic. Actually, I can think of…
Bracketing Easter and Passover, the Washington Post headline was meant to shock: “Religious membership in U.S. falls below 50%, poll finds,” the lowest since 1937, citing a just-published Gallup poll and media release with a similar title. But Gallup also…
Secularism is like an acid that burns through everything it touches. An illustration of its corrosive power came this last week from the polling organization Gallup, which reported that less than half the country now identifies as religiously affiliated. “Fewer…
One of the starkest examples of secularism during the Obama–Biden administration was the Supreme Court case Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC. Arguing before the high court, Leondra Kruger, the lawyer for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC),…
It turns out the New Atheists were wrong. During the mid-2000s, American middle- and upper-brow conversation experienced what I once called “the most sustained attack on monotheistic religion since Attila the Hun.” Within a single period of less than ten…
Joe Biden has said that he will only appoint “living” constitutionalists to the courts. Unless they find unstated rights in the Constitution, he won’t name them: “I would look to judges, potential nominees, they would have to acknowledge the fact…
In 2012, the Democrats came close to eliminating God from their platform. Delegates at that year’s convention in Charlotte proposed removing “God-given potential” from one of the platform’s passages. But Barack Obama, ever conscious of the need to con the…