THE WEST
March 2011
‘Islamist organisations are paid by government to come up with ideas on how to improve British mosques. It can’t be worse, can it?’
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March 2011
Dambisa Moyo, author of How the West was Lost, and Niall Ferguson, author of Civilization: The West and the Rest, discuss the Eastern challenge to Western prosperity with the Editor of Standpoint, Daniel Johnson
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March 2011
Scholasticism was philosophy's attempt to apply reason to Church doctrine. But while the medievals were constrained by a notion of overriding divine authority, we should not underestimate the theistic dimension of Western thought today
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January/February 2011
'Happiness consists in doing as we would be done by. Judaeo-Christian morality is integral to Enlightenment ethics'
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