On the dangers of the ever-expanding state: The Big State is always a big problem. The Total State has proven to be perhaps the greatest…
One can never get enough quotes from the pen of Sowell: By my count I have over 30 volumes by the great Thomas Sowell. Also…
Biblical truth and political outcomes: I just wrote a piece looking at some of the political and economic fallout of the new Mayor of NYC,…
Reflections on the Mamdani win: Oceans of ink have already been spilled on the election of Communist Muslim Zohran Mamdani as the mayor of New…
America and the fate of the West: One wonders just how many Americans actually realise that next year is special. It will be of course…
Trying to understand God’s dealings in human history: I am constantly thinking about the state of the world, about international relations, about geopolitics, about justice,…
An important historian discusses Christianity and secularism in Europe: Talk about a grandiose title. No, I am not setting out to write a library-worth of…
Highlights and lowlights from UNGA: The 80th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 80) is now happening in New York. Some of the speeches…
Has the Bible predicted where we are now at? One major theme of the new book by John Lennox – God, AI and the End…
Bernard-Henri Lévy on Marxism and Islamism: It is usually much easier to go with the flow – especially when it comes to intellectual and ideological…
Just who are the real killers? Atheists and others have longed claimed that religion is the source of most, if not all, violence in the…
We must not be complacent about communist and woke ideology: Marxism and related ideologies are still very much with us. The Iron Curtain and the…
The Middle East and the crisis in the West: For decades now Os Guinness has been one of our leading Christian thinkers and cultural commentators.…
Vignettes from Ronald Reagan and his mission: Ronald Reagan was a polarising figure in various ways, hated by many of the left, but loved by…
The making of a conservative movement: Two of the most important figures in 20th century American conservatism were William F. Buckley, Jr., and Ronald Reagan.…
It is time to call out the overblown rhetoric and falsehoods of the left: There is never a shortage of Western leftists and socialists who…
We need some clarity with the concept of equality: Equality, rightly understood, is a great thing. Wrongly understood, it can result in all sorts of…
The desire to control others has always been with us – and it is getting worse: The ominous final line of an important new history…
We must be thankful for strong leaders when they are most needed: Some 16 years ago or so I was visiting with my family in…
An insider’s look at Ronald Reagan: Great leaders do not come along all that often, but when they do, it often seems that they were…