Press and Magazine Articles
Popular Magazines & Newspapers
- ‘Mormons: A Rising Force?,’ Huffington Post, May 14, 2012
- ‘Why the Future Will be More Religious and More Conservative Than You Think,’ American.com, 8 May 2012, republished in Blaze.com and National Journal
- Review of Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, ‘Why Nations Fail,‘ Literary Review, April 2012
- Review of Steven Pinker, ‘The Better Angels of our Nature,’ Literary Review, Christmas 2011
- ‘Moneyball: Can Sports Statistics Save Political Studies?’, Political Insight, December 2011 (also featured on LSE Politics blog)
- ‘Rural and religious fuel the world’s population boom,’ Providence Journal, Nov.6, 2011
- ‘Religious revival: Western societies are being dramatically reshaped by the strong birth rate of religious people,‘ Bright Blue, Autumn 2011, p. 37
- Review of Robert Putnam and David Campbell, ‘American Grace,’ Literary Review, May 2011
- Review of Olivier Roy, ‘Holy Ignorance,’ Literary Review, February 2011
- ‘Out of the mouths of babes – religious will rise as secular birth rates fall,’ Sydney Morning Herald, September 20, 2010
- review of Doug Saunders’ ‘Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History is Reshaping Our World’ published in Literary Review in September 2010
- Review of Pascal Bruckner’s excellent book, ‘Tyranny of Guilt’, in the August issue of Prospect magazine, 2010
- See my recent piece for the Irish Times on the book, ‘Population boom in third world provides a boost for religions’, 20 July 2010
- 8 July 2010 – my article on this year’s Twelfth marches, ‘Why Orangemen must put best foot forward’, Belfast Telegraph
- ‘Europe’s Muslim Future‘, Eric Kaufmann, Prospect, April 2010
- ‘The Return of Economic Nationalism’, Providence Journal, June 2009
- ‘The Changing Face of Israel‘ (co-authored with R. Cincotta), Foreign Policy (web exclusive), June 2009
- ‘The Global War for Souls’, a review of John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, ‘God is Back’, Prospect, June 2009
- Article on the legacy of the late Samuel Huntington, ‘The Meaning of Huntington’, in Prospect magazine, February 2009
- ‘Peaceful Xenophobes’, Prospect, November 2008
- ” ‘God Returns to Europe’, review of God’s Continent, by Philip Jenkins, Prospect, November 2007
- ” ‘Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth’, Jewish Quarterly, Autumn 2007
- ” ‘Parades … could there soon be a deal?’, Belfast Telegaph, 11 July 2007
- ” ‘The Poverty of Liberalism’, review of A world beyond politics: a defense of the nation-state, by Pierre Manent, Prospect, June 2007
- ‘An Orange History from the Inside’, Belfast News Letter, 21 May 2007 (Followed by six daily extracts from my book, The Orange Order, 22-26 May)
- ‘Faith’s Comeback’ (abridged from Prospect article), Newsweek (International edition), 7-13 November 2006
- ‘Breeding for God’, Prospect, November 2006
- ” ‘Canada Blazes Trail’, Prospect, March 2006
- ” ‘The New Unionism’, Prospect, November 2005
- ” ‘Simply Canadian’, Vancouver Sun, 30 August 05
- ” 1 March 2005 – Invited to participate on roundtable, ‘Britishness Today’, chaired by David Goodhart (Prospect Magazine) and Gordon Brown (Chancellor of the Exchequer). Department of the Treasury, London. (Proceedings published in April 2005 issue of Prospect)
- ” ‘Ethnic America,’ Prospect, July 2004, pp. 34-39