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Self-serving white guilt
Guilt, stirred up by leftist thinkers, is now de rigueur in the west. But Pascal Bruckner believes our soul-searching is both hypocritical and injurious
Subject: Books & literature, Intellectuals & ideas, People & populationsEurope’s Muslim future
A fast-growing Muslim population is a threat to European values, according to the “Eurabianists.” But a culture war in which fundamentalists of all faiths fight secularism is a more worrying trend
Subject: Europe, ReligionThe global war for souls
Religion is once again one of the most urgent fields of human experience. Now an important new book has startling things to tell us about its future
Subject: Books & literatureThe meaning of Huntington
Samuel Huntington died a pariah among America’s intellectual elite. It’s because he was normal
Subject: Intellectuals & ideasThe peaceful xenophobes
Two new studies of empire and nationalism should make us think again about conflating xenophobia, nationalism and aggression
Subject: Books & literature, People & populationsIs God returning to Europe?
A leading US Christian says that faith in Europe will be re-energised by a creative Christian minority and by the example of Islam. But he is too sanguine about the integration of Muslims and about “model” America—where religiosity is, in part, a function of white ethnic anxiety
Subject: Books & literature, People & populationsThe poverty of liberalism
The individualism and universalism of western political elites are on a collision course with the popular desire for moorings in time and place. The nation state cannot be replaced by global norms
Subject: International politicsBreeding for God
In Europe, the fertility advantage of the religious over non-believers has historically been counterbalanced by the march of secularisation. Not any more. Secularisation in Europe is now in decline, and Islam continues to grow. Europe will start to adopt a more American model of modernity
Subject: Europe, Intellectuals & ideas, People & populations, Science & technologyThe new unionism
Northern Ireland’s recent violence reflects the “modernisation” of unionism
Subject: British politics, International politicsEthnic America
Samuel Huntington has stirred up a new controversy with a book about the danger to America from Hispanic immigration. He worries too much about Hispanics but he is right that the US does have an Anglo-Protestant ethno-cultural core which may be in conflict with the country’s cosmopolitan idea
Subject: Books & literature, North America, People & populations










