Kuyper and Islam

July 25, 2025 • by Wyatt Flicker

Kuyper and Islam

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Tickling the Ivies: Can Higher Education Be Saved?

Every now and then you read a book so simple in concept and so interesting in outcome that you kick yourself for not having come up with the idea. Many people have a sense that higher education has jumped the rails in a variety of ways, but mostly that sense gets fed by anecdote and rumor and clickbait. Continue Reading...

Separation of Church and Secularism

If armed officers of the state didn’t come to your church gathering this past weekend, demanding that you break up your unofficial and unlicensed religious gathering, you can thank, in large part, America’s largest Protestant tradition: Baptists. Continue Reading...

Novak in Nigeria: A Reflection on The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism

In the heart of Nigeria’s bustling markets and vibrant churches, a quiet but powerful yearning lives: the desire to build a better life through faith, freedom, and hard work. It’s a desire I have seen in the eyes of young students in Enugu, in the determination of women trading tomatoes on the streets of Aba, and in the quiet prayers of fathers hoping to send their children to school. Continue Reading...

Rebuilding Virtue: We Need an Architecture Revival

“Beauty will save the world.” With this declaration, Prince Myshkin in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot affirms his belief in the triumph of the transcendent principles of truth, beauty, and goodness. Despite the ugliness too often seen in the world and the moral corruption that corrupts the minds and acts of men, the belief that beauty is a path to salvation persists. Continue Reading...

Still Betting on Pascal’s Wager

Long known and respected for his scholarship on liberalism, regime types, and the nation, Pierre Manent has also contributed to discussions on natural law, prudence, and agency in the face of contemporary confusions about meaning and the human good. Continue Reading...

Don’t Let AI Hack Your Humanity

I recently attended a seminar on AI in which the speaker presented a recent exchange with ChatGPT, ending in the chatbot giving a very convincing imitation of a human compliment. “That should feel weird,” the speaker told the audience, and judging by the largely over-30 crowd, he made his point. Continue Reading...

Dining with Judas: The Limits of Culinary Diplomacy 

Since the first state dinner in 1874, the United States has maintained a long-standing tradition of engaging in culinary diplomacy—a soft-power tool used to “increase bilateral ties by strengthening relationships through the use of food and dining experiences as a means to engage visiting dignitaries.” Continue Reading...