Articles By Joseph Loconte
May 2013
In attempting to answer his question Why Tolerate Religion, Chicago philosopher Brian Leiter wilfully neglects the impact of the Judaeo-Christian tradition on Western civilisation
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November 2012
Religious belief is on the rise in the US but not of the traditional sort. Rather, a self-serving, navel-gazing, pseudo-Christianity has taken hold
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July/August 2012
Amid the higher costs for university tuition online degree courses are gaining traction. Plato and Cicero would be turning in their grave
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March 2012
Obama's edict that religious organisations must contribute to birth control has wantonly undermined the sanctity of religious conscience
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September 2011
Dishonest and distasteful journalists have co-opted the late, great evangelical Reverend for their own, secular causes
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May 2011
History may remember the Arab Spring's "noble revolutionaries" in the same terms as those of the French Revolution — utopian and doomed to failure
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June 2010
Barack Obama's utopian daydreams lack moral courage, and are a gift to his enemies
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September 2009
The rift between religious and economic conservatives in the Republican Party is simple to heal
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July/August 2009
The future looks bleak for the Republican Party, unless they can find someone with conviction to fill the leadership void
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About Joseph Loconte
Joseph Loconte is an associate professor of history at King's College, New York, and the author of The Searchers: A Quest for Faith in the Valley of Doubt (Thomas Nelson).
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