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    Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization

    Jul 01, 2020 6 minutes
    BRUCE P. FROHNEN

    By Samuel Gregg

    Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2019.

    Pp. xv, 192. $28 hardcover.

    Ongoing conflict with and within the Middle East has spawned a significant literature regarding the “clash of civilizations” between Western liberal democracies and Islamic nations in particular (see Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order [New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996]). The war on terror, combined with mass emigration from the Middle East to Europe, has added urgency to this concern. Does ordered liberty require a deep, cultural adherence to institutions and practices with historical roots not to be found in Islamic countries? Or is ordered liberty the product of a specific set of beliefs to which any rational person can and, given the chance, would subscribe?

    Samuel Gregg sides with those who see ordered liberty as fundamentally a matter of right thinking. But right thinking, in his view, is encouraged or discouraged depending on the nature of one’s intellectual tradition.  is an attempt to lay out for a popular audience the reasons why

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