America is a pragmatic, albeit imperfect, application of a apocalyptic vision—an application inadvertently set by the founding Anglo-Protestant settlers.

Nietzsche’s historic importance is in unmasking the Enlightenment hypocrisy or dishonesty of rejecting Christianity while retaining its moral and humanitarian values.

If Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), the celebrated French author of Democracy in America, awakened in present-day America, he would likely be deeply shocked by the polarization, radicalism, and most of all the hostility between liberalism and religion.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), the self-described antichrist and disciple of the Greek god Dionysus, is undeniably one of Christianity’s bitterest philosophical enemies. 

For the first liberty from which all modern liberties emanated is religious liberty, the freedom to worship God according to one’s conscience.

Deep analysis of sociological shifts and a civilizational retreat.

Even a democracy can choose to give away basic freedoms.

Building a Christian state.

The wall between church and state.

Modern freedoms, be they religious, economic, political, or individual, were elaborated as a retort to the medieval church-state’s authoritarianism; to its passion for unity that had all the intimations of modern totalitarianism.

Anti-Semitism is a historical enigma. Its origin in pagan antiquity, its evolution through the medieval…

Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species (1859) shattered faith in Creation, God, and other fundamental…