Hostility to Islam has disguised a host of other prejudices
Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today by John Tolan reviewed
Thank God for western values
The debt of the contemporary West to Christianity is more deeply rooted than many assume
Decline and fall: why America always thinks it’s going the way of Rome
The many declines and falls of the American Empire
Cynical, one-dimensional and oddly colourless: Jurassic World – Fallen Kingdom reviewed
Back in the mists of prehistory, when I was eight, dinosaur films followed a set pattern. The dinosaurs themselves would…
How Christianity saw off its rivals and became the universal church
It thrived by killing off the opposition, says Bart Ehrman. But it also appealed to Rome’s enslaved masses
