The US administration’s assault on religious freedom is just part of its wider attack on the institutions of civil society

'The intelligentsia ignored the irruption of religious fanaticism into domestic British politics. In the face of these foes of civilisation, silence is the worst form of cowardice'

'We all — all classes, races and genders of every sexual persuasion — have a stake in restoring the authority of marriage, because our civilisation depends on it'

Book review of The War on Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe by R. I. Moore