One of the most useful concepts for understanding the world today is the late Marxist sociologist Zygmunt Bauman’s brainchild “liquid modernity.” I used it in The Benedict Option, and continue to find ...

One of the best-known texts of Vatican II is Gaudium et Spes, the pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern world. That unique document, addressed not just to ...

Modernity seems to produce its own specific pathologies. These pathologies are present as global catastrophes, such as global wars, climate crises, and genocides, or as more “common” and almost ...

Muqtedar Khan teaches at the University of Delaware. He is a co-founder of the Delaware Council for Global and Muslim Affairs and is on Twitter. Updated December 6, 2015, 11:09 PM How can we wrap our ...

The question: What is secularism? Religion occupies a unique place in our understanding of modern society and nation-statehood. Having played a particular role in the formation of the European ...

President Donald Trump’s political comeback in the 2024 United States presidential election, though not a landslide, is nothing short of phenomenal. He secured victories in all the swing states, ...

Man is a sovereign, self-governing and autonomous rational being. We, as humans, prefer to call ourselves conservative or are labeled as traditional by our society. We are afraid to accept a change or ...

In the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, political leaders have lined up to denounce the acts as inhuman and uncivilized, unworthy of our day and age. French President Francois Hollande denounced ...

As a college student, I often want to know why tradition is always at loggerheads with modernity. Why can't tradition and modernity simply complement each other? We grow up with tradition and embrace ...