Paul Marshall

While the Spanish government understandably does not want to celebrate the reign of dictator Francisco Franco, recent actions taken to erase his memory seem punitive towards the broader legacy of Spanish Catholicism

While international courts, like the European Court of Human Rights, have their uses, the truth is that human rights are often better protected by unilateral actors defending the innocent without reference to any court

Will Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority democracy, resist creeping authoritarianism or slide back under military rule as old power networks reemerge?

One of the oldest active monasteries in the world, St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula, is at risk of being taken over by the Egyptian government

The results of the Baylor/Harvard Global Flourishing Study survey have just been released, showing empirically the importance of religious observance as one of the most significant factors in self-reported wellbeing from across 22 countries

The idea of a unified Eurasian continent dominating the world goes back over a century, but in 2024 China, Russia, North Korea and Iran have made it almost a reality

Despite immense handwringing at WaPo and the LAT over not endorsing a presidential candidate, it’s unclear if anyone besides journalists care

Robert Kagan’s new book mistakenly argues that everything bad in America comes from religion and everything good from the Enlightenment

For most of Canada’s history, it has represented a Tory, conservative, anti-American revolutionary counterpart to the United States

The results are in for the latest Pew global survey, showing a decline in religious freedom around the world