the Evil Line

The secularization hypothesis - the idea that as societies modernize, religion will fade away - is false. John J. DiIulio Jr. explains that this has consequences for foreign policy:

It is bad to doubt the overwhelming empirical evidence that religion matters to domestic politics as well as the delivery of social services. But it is far worse to treat religion as a back-burner reality in global affairs when it is boiling over in so many places. The State Department needs to wake up and smell the incense.