The Achilles heel of the West, I read the other day, is that many people struggle to find deep, spiritual meaning in our secular, affluent society. How can we compete with the Messianic messages streaming from the Islamic State and other purveyors of dystopian religious fundamentalism? It made me reflect on my own life. How […]

Michael Petrilli
Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.