Philip Pilkington, the author of The Collapse of Global Liberalism And the Emergence of the Post-liberal World Order (Polity Press, 2025), has an urgent message for us: The West, which…
History
The Enigma of Ibn Khaldun
The medieval Muslim scholar Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is a household name in Morocco and the Muslim world and is often credited with inventing what we now call the “social sciences.”…
Healing America’s Body Politic
Having long been an admirer of the American Revolution as a landmark event in human history, one that awakened the nations of the earth to the priceless promise of freedom,…
The Tyranny of Liberalism
At long last, a distinguished professor publishing with a major academic press, has defied the canons of scholarship, with their stale-and-dry tones (the various bloodless styles that pass for the…
Mysteries of the Father
To those who reject the notion that much of our reality is a social construction, welcome to the world of fatherhood. For the strongly democratic minded, fatherhood may feel like…
The World Monogamy Made
I’ll start by sharing a few impressions I developed since coming to the United States in the 1980s. Of the people I interacted with in New York City, I liked…
A Dangerous Couple: The Story of Adam and Eve
For the longest time, ever since my early childhood years, I have tried to imagine the lives of Adam and Eve, fashioned, unlike the luminous angels, out of clay. The…
A Brief History of British Tangier
In my book Freedom and Orthodoxy I make it clear that the classical world order was radically altered by Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the continent that would later bear the…