The hardest word
The Catholic Church is resisting huge pressure to apologise for its involvement in indigenous cruelty
The organised anger of Israel’s Arab citizens
The violence that’s receiving much less media coverage than Gaza
The easiest country to govern
Michael Coren on the churches aggressively resisting restrictions
Richard Coles and the madness of grief
Michael Coren talks to his friend, Rev Richard Coles, about Coles’ forthcoming memoir on love, loss and grief
The Christian case for supporting abortion rights
Rev. Michael Coren says that the Bible simply doesn’t have anything pertinent to say about abortion, and the current extremism alienates people from the church
Why Ireland’s blasphemy law needed to go
Insult for its own sake is childish and banal, but the ability to strongly criticise any creed is absolutely vital in a healthy democracy
Reflection in Advent
I am a half-Jewish product of artificial trees, bagels, White Hart Lane, and of two people who knew little of theology but everything of God’s love
The paradox at the heart of Catholicism
Catholic catechism is one thing, but the beliefs of the more than a billion adherents are often something entirely different
Democrats are right to raise questions about Amy Coney Barrett
Will the Supreme Court’s new justice be able to commit to American secularism?
Conversion course
Michael Coren was a conservative Catholic who was forced to reevaluate everything he publicly stood for
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Judith Butler has a projection problem
It is she, not gender-critical feminists, who seems to be afraid
Is public health a protected belief?
A new case will decide if prohibitionism in the name of public health constitutes a philosophical belief under the Equality Act
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
