The Fifth Column

I love studies that discuss why religious people think the way they do.  Unfortunately, not all such studies are created equal. Consider ...

Scientific American, a marvelous magazine in many respects, recently published an article which not only demonstrated the foolishness of one...

Father Stanley Jaki, Templeton Prize winner and one of the finest minds in the world, has passed away. I had the honor of speaking with Fath...

It’s eerie, really. Five centuries ago, lay university professors invoked Scripture and religion in order to attack and destroy an opponent ...

In the last essay, we saw why science cut ties with Christianity. Now we shall examine the details of what happened. In order to do this, we...

As was pointed out in the previous essay, neither Eastern mysticism nor any other religious worldview except Christianity was amenable to th...

In the re-emerging debate over creationism, intelligent design and evolution, much has been made of the need to keep religious faith out of ...

America’s three-party system is mutating yet again, but it is unclear exactly how the game will play out. Hmmm….? Yes, you read that right. ...

In an unexpected turn of events, Newsweek has revealed their recent story concerning false allegations that military interrogators flushed t...

If you get a chance to read Pat Buchanan's latest piece on World War II, do it. I have noted more than once in this space that Nazi euge...

As even disinterested observers admit, any theory that has to account for both Giganotosaurus and Genesis is going to require nuance. Unfort...

It’s a Religious War Miguel Estrada, the Hispanic Catholic judge whose nomination was put on hold seven times, is the latest victim of th...