If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is 'pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television,' then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths-young men principally, of course-to our way of life.

Experience rarely teaches its lessons directly but instead requires interpretation through the filter of preconceived theories, prejudices, and desires. Where …

We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.

The refusal of free inquiry derives from an awareness of the fragility of the basis of religious faith; and since certainty is psychologically preferable to tr…