It is culture that creates economics, and not the other way around.

One striking feature of the recent "Restoring Honor" rally on the National Mall was how deeply religious and ecumenical it was.

An excerpt from the first of the 2006-2007 Bradley Lectures.

When liberal strategistswonder what's the matter with Kansas, they could do worse than to look back to Tennessee--and to their own caustic dismissive of serious Christians.

During the recent democratic revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine, the local branches of the Orthodox Church acted in full concordance with liberal democratic values, supporting the desire of people in these countries for political freedoms. However, they were resisted at every turn by the nationalistic Russian Orthodox Church, which is tightly tied to a Russian state that is still trying to reassert control over its former dominions.

Do we yet understand the nature of the "Long War" for the future of the Middle East?

Claudio Hummes of Sao Paulo is attracting the most attention as a serious candidate to succeed Pope John Paul II.

Are the Arabs capable of democracy? And if so, can Americans be the agents of their transformation? The answer, of course, is that no one knows.