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…
Donald Trump has correctly predicted that a Biden administration will undermine religion in America. “Take away your guns, take away your Second Amendment. No religion, no anything,” Trump said last week, forecasting what Biden will do. “Hurt the Bible. Hurt…
Donald Trump wants to open up churches more than some church leaders do. No sooner had he proposed that churches be deemed “essential” services than some church leaders began criticizing him. At CNN, Father Edward Beck quickly penned a column…
The Danish anthropologist Knud Rasmussen and his Greenlandic Inuit companions Miteq and Arnarulunguaq embarked on the Fifth Thule Expedition (1921–24) in order to “attack the great primary problem of the origin of the Eskimo race,” an immense project that required…
“The Bill of Rights, as you well know, protects Americans’ rights — enshrines their right to practice their religion as they see fit and to congregate together to assemble peacefully,” Tucker Carlson said to Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey…
