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Post Tagged 'Ottoman Empire'

The Many Faces of Anti-Semitism

In July 2025, I visited Stanford University. Tacked up all over the campus were leaflets identifying Israel as a leading—possibly, the leading—cause of climate change. The notion that a country of 10 million people could be a principal agent bringing about a global rise in temperatures is, of course, ridiculous. Continue Reading...

Kuyper and Islam

Abraham Kuyper is remembered as a titan of Dutch politics, a preeminent Reformed political theologian, and someone many consider the ideological father of the Protestant strain of Christian democracy. In Kuyper’s vast output, comprising over 200 books and 20,000 articles, outstanding is his Om de Oude Wereldzee, “On the Old World-Sea,” an impressive travelogue of Kuyper’s tours of the civilizations along the Mediterranean, from Crimea to Spain. Continue Reading...