Science as we know it today would not be the same without its Christian roots: To speak of Western civilisation is to speak about Christian…
Some incisive reflections on this very important book by Lewis: Those who lived through the rule of both Communism and Nazism – even if from…
What you must read on AI, transhumanism, and the new digital technologies: Whether we like it or not, and whether we know it or not,…
Wipf & Stock, 2022. An important new resource on the threat of transhumanism: Nearly a century ago Aldous Huxley penned his chilling and prophetic Brave…
As the old saying goes, Christians are in the world but not of it. Thus, although we live in a fallen, sinful world, we should…
The 37 million cheaters caught out by a hacked adultery website have a lot to worry about at the moment. There they thought they could…
There are many myths about Islam being circulated, not just by Muslim apologists but by Western dhimmis. Take for example the idea that science, culture,…
Fifty years ago (November 22, 1963), three famous men died, but the death of one greatly overshadowed the death of the others. The assassination of…
We live in an age of ever escalating rights’ claims, but with ever decreasing emphasis on responsibility and obligation. Every day new claims to rights…
Islam is a political faith. It sees no separation between the sacred and the secular. Everything is religious, and everything is political. Westerners have a…
If modernism and secularisation have convinced pagans of God’s nonexistence, they have convinced many Christians of God’s manageability. That is, God has become less of…
A core feature of the Enlightenment project was the twin concepts of optimism and progress. Modernism’s infatuation with science led to the idea that human…
Modernism can be described in many ways, but central to the modernist project have been several related emphases: man by reason alone can come to…
The march of science and the outworking of Enlightenment thinking has been a mixed bag. There has been both progress and regress during the past…
I have argued elsewhere that Christianity was instrumental in the rise of the West. Progress in law, economics, science and society have largely been based…
The cultural revolution of the 60s unleashed a lot of madness and mischief on to the world. I should know, because I was a part…
Writing in the Spring 2006 issue of The New Atlantis, Eric Cohen has an interesting article entitled “Biotechnology and the Spirit of Capitalism”. In it…
Encounter Books, 2002. As the Western world grows increasingly secular, the attacks on religion in general and Christianity in particular become ever more shrill and…
Encounter Books, 2002. The rapid growth in biotechnology has seen a corresponding growth in bioethics. Unfortunately, however, many bio-ethicists have become handmaidens to Big Biotech.…
In the brave new world of the 1990s, a number of emerging technological possibilities pose a threat to the family unit. The ability to ascertain…