"If you're going to take your religion seriously, you should feel it's superior to others. Why else believe in it?" "On the other hand, society does require a hands-off attitude toward other faiths in order for us to all live together. It's a dilemma."

"If you're going to take your religion seriously, you should feel it's superior to others. Why else believe in it?" "On the other hand, society does require a hands-off attitude toward other faiths in order for us to all live together. It's a dilemma."

But just how deeply ingrained are these divisions inside the American public? Not so deep, really. In a 2006 book called, "Is There a Culture War?" James Davison Hunter and Alan Wolfe disagreed fiercely over the reach and power of the culture wars, but...

He saw Hitchens as a court-jester leftist and pictured him as stoutly manning a barricade made of hotel minibars. He complained that the book was a blend of the debonair and the moralizing that was well nigh insufferable, though it probably wows...

And the decidedly ignominious, if not pathetic, way that once powerful leaders in North Africa and the Middle East lost their power should remind us it is one thing to run corrupt and oppressive regimes -- and another entirely to deploy an...

It's been a bad year for dictators. It all begin in January with the Arab Spring; from Tunisia to Egypt to Libya, and perhaps extending eventually to Syria, leaders who had oppressed their people have found themselves removed from power by the very...