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Secularism

Defending the Faiths

Allen D. Hertzke
Daniel Philpott
| Sep 01, 2000
Global religious persecution increased during the 1990s, but not as rapidly as America's awareness of it. The proper place of religious freedom in the hierarchy of U.S. foreign policy concerns.

What Price Human Rights?

William F. Schulz
John R. Bolton
| Jun 01, 1999
An exchange on how the sensitive and contentious issue of human rights should be integrated into our foreign policy.

Religion and American Foreign Policy: The Story of a Complex Relationship

Leo Ribuffo | Jun 01, 1998
The historical connection between American religion and foreign relations may be explored on four levels.

Secularism in Retreat

Peter L. Berger | Dec 01, 1996
The world today, with some exceptions, is as furiously religious as it ever was, and in some places more so than ever.
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Commentary

Turkey's Islamic Revolution

Benny Morris | Aug 01, 2011
The Islamists have all but completed their coup. What to expect from the Islamic Republic of Turkey.

Turkey’s Doing It Without the Fez On

Michael C. Desch | Oct 26, 2010
Turkey's policies are becoming more globalized, more Islamic and more assertive. And that's a good thing for the United States.

As Goes Holland . . .

Jacob Heilbrunn | Mar 05, 2010
Geert Wilders’ local-election victory is the harbinger of a wave of right-wing populism that will soon sweep Europe.
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Blogs

Religion, the Stimulant of the People

Paul R. Pillar | Dec 09, 2010
An Ark-based theme park in Kentucky—not to mention Sarah Palin's criticism of JFK—is a threat to the bedrock American principle separating Church and State.

Books & Reviews

Philosophy for the All-Too-Common Man

John Gray | Apr 20, 2010
A reflexive hostility to Western religion permeates the chattering classes. If only rationality ruled the day, they argue, the world would be at peace.

The Origin of Modernity

S. T. Karnick | Jun 01, 2005
Modern Western discord stems from differing Enlightenment experiences.

Atatürk--and After

Graham E. Fuller | Sep 01, 2000
The definitive portrait--and vindication--of Turkey's founding father.
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