Christianity

Let ’ s start a new one

The protesters are expressing the ‘godless creed’ of identity politics

Team Trump is well aware of the Catholic problem that Biden poses

The divide in politics is increasingly between secular liberalism on the one hand and a coalition of faith and nation on the other

Martin Luther King is easily misrepresented in our era of heightened identity politics, and of scepticism towards grand unifying ideals. For him, the campaign for black civil rights was firmly rooted in a very grand moral and political vision. Today’s progressives have largely lost sight of this wider vision; indeed the thought of it embarrasses them. It seems naïve, unrealistic. Its grandeur is more likely to be mocked than honoured. To black activist writers such as Ta-Nehisi Coates (whom I recently discussed here) it seems a mask for complacent racism. The remarkable thing about King is that he expressed the core ideals of America, and the West, with new intensity