Michael Novak reviews Christopher Hitchens's God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.

Reviews Why Orwell Matters, by Christopher Hitchens.

If we can provideIraq with security, Iraq has a good chance of creating a decent, representative government that takes its responsibilities at home and abroad seriously.

Recent writings by the “new atheists”—Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens—present an ideal occasion for Michael Novak to return to his deepest philosophical passion: exploring a reasoned approach to questions about the nature and destiny of human beings.

Novak begins No One Sees God...

As a glance at the headlines or the best-seller list demonstrates, religion is an increasingly prominent subject of debate in American life. Polls show that America is becoming both more evangelical and more secular, and the discussions about religion’s role--particularly in public life--are often acrimonious.

In an effort to elevate...

In many European countries, churches fill up only on Christmas day; Europeans are so thoroughly secularized that clerics regularly question the existence of God. In America, on the other hand, politicians habitually invoke the Almighty and religious inspiration continues to play an important role in public life. Which of...

A clear majority of French citizens believe this is all a conspiracy. Yet every day, it becomes ever more clear that the French--particularly the French socialists who counted DSK as their leader--turned a blind eye to the man's ever more risky and appalling behavior.