The Western civic tradition is a particular inheritance
Liberty of conscience, equality under law, and limited government are not the common property of every culture in the same way. They were historically formed, and they can be lost.
Analysis
Essays and working notes
Short pieces on how to read the data, how to argue about a tradition, and how not to give up either truthfulness or neighbor-love. These are sample posts for the first draft of the site.
Why sourced research matters in civic debate
Public argument about religion and culture goes wrong in two opposite ways — rumor, and refusal to look. The alternative is slower and better: cite what you can open.
Reading demographic change without panic or denial
Population estimates and mosque counts are public facts. They neither authorize hostility nor require silence. The civic task is to interpret them under the Constitution.