controversy in history

A sense of purpose

Peter Smith | 09 April 2013 |

tags: Margaret Thatcher, obituaries, UK

Mrs Thatcher’s steely resolve to improve Britain is sorely needed today, but tempered by compassion for the post-industrial working class.

The truth about the “Dirty War” and the Pope

Pedro Dutour | 26 March 2013 |

tags: Argentina, Dirty War, Pope Francis

Smears about the new Pope have echoed around the world. But leading human rights activists in Argentina deny them.

The myth of disappearing Lebanese Christians

Michael Cook | 20 February 2013 |

tags: demography, Lebanon

A bombshell report shows that Christians are making a demographic comeback in Lebanon because of tumbling Muslim birth rates.

Lebanon’s secret

Michael Cook | 18 September 2012 |

tags: Benedict XVI, Islam, Lebanon

The Pope seems to be connecting with the Muslim world in a way that no other world leader has.

Catholic women and that other contraceptive mandate

Carolyn Moynihan | 14 September 2012 |

tags: Catholic Church, contraception, natural family planning

Why do so many church-going women reject Catholic teaching on family planning? At last someone has asked them.

Reverend Moon versus the scientists

Carolyn Moynihan | 04 September 2012 |

tags: cults, human enhancement, science

The Moonie founder was not the only one with a messiah complex.

Is Man by Nature in Relation to the Infinite?

Robert R. Reilly | 30 August 2012 |

tags: Christianity, Islam, reason

The notion of "let's be reasonable about this" has a long history and a deep meaning behind it.

Mexico’s growing pains

George Friedman | 22 August 2012 |

tags: Mexico, Stratfor

"Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!" said one of its presidents one hundred years ago. Not much has changed.

Time to reform the Reformation

Eamon Duffy | 17 July 2012 |

tags: Catholicism, England, Reformation

For 500 years, England has denied its Catholic heritage. In our multicultural era, it is high time for the conventional wisdom to be questioned, says a leading historian.

A Kulturkampf primer

Michael Cook | 03 July 2012 |

tags: Catholic Church, culture wars, history, Kulturkampf

The best-known culture war was fought in 19th Century Germany, pitting Prussia's Iron Chancellor against the Catholic Church. The Iron Chancellor lost.

Who dares attack my Chesterton?

Zac Alstin | 01 June 2012 |

tags: Christopher Hitchens, G.K. Chesterton, Nazism

Christopher Hitchens' last piece of journalism was a all-out attack on another great journalist, G.K. Chesterton. He came off second best.

Immigration and the “Next America”

Jose H. Gomez | 05 April 2012 |

tags: immigration, religion, US history

The debate over immigration rests on an incomplete version of the country’s national story.

Whatever happened to British common sense?

Joanna Bogle | 15 March 2012 |

tags: Britain, religious freedom

The Tory-led government is taking sides against Christians who want wear a small cross at work.

A Srebrenica in the making?

David Alton | 05 December 2011 |

tags: human rights, Iran, Iraq

The American withdrawal from Iraq has left some Iranian refugees at risk of being slaughtered.

Europe’s crisis lies beyond finance

George Friedman | 16 November 2011 |

tags: European Union

Racial and ethnic tensions combined with economic austerity and a sense of betrayal toward the elite could create an explosive mixture.

Statistically significant angels

Zac Alstin | 11 November 2011 |

tags: history, human dignity, warfare

Did the 20th Century really usher in a decline in violence, even with two World Wars?

Another death in the family

Michael Cook | 08 November 2011 |

tags: euthanasia, Norway, UK

Did a famous London physician euthanase two of the crowned heads of Europe?

Burghley: the Elizabethan mastermind

Francis Phillips | 03 November 2011 |

tags: history, Reformation, UK

Brilliant, bold and cold-blooded, Elizabeth's chief statesman dominated his age and shaped the history of England.

And yet, it moves

George Pell | 01 November 2011 |

tags: climate change, consensus

A Catholic prelate finds himself in the party of Galileo and against the consensus of true believers on climate change.

Uncertain future in both Libya and Iraq

George Friedman | 26 October 2011 |

tags: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Middle East

Celebrations over the demise of Gadhafi are ignoring the obvious question of what comes next.

Democracy in peril: Egypt’s handling of Coptic unrest

Anthony Billingsley | 13 October 2011 |

tags: Coptic Christians, democracy, Egypt, religious freedom, tolerance

Formerly the heroes of Tahrir Square, the military are now being viewed differently.

“Ethically impossible”

Michael Cook | 22 September 2011 |

tags: Guatemala, utilitarianism

Are there any lessons for the future in the scandalous story of American syphilis research in Guatemala?

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