Book review of Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress, edited by Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington

The continuing sharp disparities in economic progress, democratic stability, and social justice among nations--a decade after the fall of communism, and in the face of the global spread of democratic--capitalist policies and institutions---have raised anew the issue of cultural inheritance as a central factor in development. The significance of...

Four hundred years after the battles of Lepanto on October 7, 1571, and Vienna on September 11-12, 1683, these dates still rankle in the jihadist mind. For it was through these battles that the navies and armies of the West threw back almost fatal attacks on their civilization. In 1571,...

Religion stands at the center of many of the most pressing questions of the early twenty-first century. Western civilization may, indeed, be at an epochal inflection point: the turn from its ancestral faiths bears momentous implications for the future. This workshop, bringing together an array of thinkers from...

In contrast to a predominantly secular Europe, the United States continues to experience conflict between secularism and religion.

In his first two years, President Obama convinced millions of Americans that he wants to make the United States more like European welfare states. The American people hate the very idea, and they simply rebelled.

This bookconcentrates on what builds character and why there is a serious lack of character in our culture and society today.

As the world’s sole remaining superpower, its most celebrated democracy, and the wellspring of an increasingly globalized popular culture, the United States of America excites fear, envy, and interest which are rarely matched by understanding. America is often said to be deeply divided, witlessly vulgar, religiously orthodox, militarily aggressive, economically...