Politics and Religion

September 17, 2025

Assisted Dying in the UK: Let’s Win the Argument on Principle

The House of Lords, with its resplendent red leather benches, a throne for the monarch at the state opening of Parliament, a rather uncomfortable-looking cushion seat (known as “the Woolsack”) from which the Speaker of the House presides over proceedings, and a host of history, architecture, and traditions, is a unique feature of the British constitution. Continue Reading...

July 25, 2025

Kuyper and Islam

Abraham Kuyper is remembered as a titan of Dutch politics, a preeminent Reformed political theologian, and someone many consider the ideological father of the Protestant strain of Christian democracy. In Kuyper’s vast output, comprising over 200 books and 20,000 articles, outstanding is his Om de Oude Wereldzee, “On the Old World-Sea,” an impressive travelogue of Kuyper’s tours of the civilizations along the Mediterranean, from Crimea to Spain. Continue Reading...