WWBRDD

In the second half of the 1990s, a simple acronym swept across America: WWJD. You could spot it on license plates, on houses, on caps and bracelets. It stood for…

Inescapable Double Standards

The central problem with morality is that its components contradict one another. This is not a matter of hypocrisy or individual moral failure. The contradiction is built into morality itself—into…

After the Church’s Power

At a recent public debate on whether our civilization can be saved without a return to biblical values, I outlined three institutions that conservatives typically regard as foundational: the traditional…

The Childbearing Burden

I’ve been revisiting a number of texts on declining fertility, and one fact remains striking above all: birth rates are falling everywhere. Across civilizations, across economic systems, among the religious…

The Two Conservatisms

“Western experts often describe the Islamic Republic of Iran as ‘conservative.’ The label is superficial, misleading, and fundamentally wrong. The regime in Tehran preserves nothing. It is a revolutionary project,…