by William Kilpatrick | Jan 5, 2022
When religious liberty protections protect opponents of religious liberty. I just came across a news item from last June about a girl (the class president) in a Fairfax County high school who led the graduating class in a recital of the Pledge of Allegiance, but...
by William Kilpatrick | Dec 30, 2021
What can we learn from the tale of the Zods and the Wachovians? Myths and fables can sometimes help us to see current events more clearly. Since they involve fictional characters and places, we can look at the events described more objectively. Whatever...
by William Kilpatrick | Dec 28, 2021
How Christmas gives meaning to life. When Samuel Huntington wrote “The Clash of Civilizations,” he was referring to the clash between Western Civilization and Islam. But there is a clash within Western Civilization itself which may determine the outcome of the...
by William Kilpatrick | Dec 22, 2021
One of the perpetual complaints against Christianity is that it is a life-denying, puritanical system. In the Victorian era, poet Algernon Swinburne referred to Christ as the “pale Galilean” from whose breath “the world has grown grey.” In our own time, films such as...
by William Kilpatrick | Dec 14, 2021
Since 2017, approximately 800,000 people in Mozambique have been displaced by advancing Islamic jihadists. Not to worry, though. Mozambique is a long way away, and besides they have a different culture. They don’t have a 200-year-old tradition of...
