The Puritans who colonized Massachusetts possessed a Calvinist theology of us and them. We were the saved whose society would be godly. They were those God had predestined to damnation. It wasn’t easy ...

It helps a little—just a teeny-weeny bit?—to reflect there’s nothing new under the sun. As with America’s latest puritan episode: tight lips, smoldering eyes, icy rage against human hindrances to ...

France is now officially part of the global “no sex” trend, notes French philosopher Gaspard Koenig, who sees a troubling connection between a rising neo-Puritanism and fears of World War III. The ...

Republicans in Congress can't govern responsibly because of their fixation on hating President Obama, plus other flaws. They can't grasp reality: e.g., man was not suddenly created. They can't ...