There is no single way to describe the country today

Is London experiencing white flight?

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

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

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

Samuel Huntington died a pariah among America's intellectual elite. It's because he was normal

Two new studies of empire and nationalism should make us think again about conflating xenophobia, nationalism and aggression

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...

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

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,...