America’s Secular Challenge

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“Herbert London mounts a powerful and persuasive argument that the undermining of the Judeo-Christian tradition by its secular rival causes a failure of resolve in the West at a time when it is necessary to confront the existential threat of radical Islam. America’s Secular Challenge deserves to be widely read and deeply pondered.”

R. H. Bork

“In this insightful volume Herb London lays bare the assumptions behind the new faith of secularism and the challenge this doctrine poses to America’s traditional ideals of self government, patriotism, and national strength. Mr. London presents clear answers to the troubling questions he poses. America’s Secular Challenge deserves to be read by Americans of all faiths.”

James Piereson
Senior Fellow
The Manhattan Institute

“America’s Secular Challenge is the widow’s cruse of moral and political philosophy. Because it is a book of modest length, it ought logically to contain only a modest amount of wisdom and commonsense. Yet because it draws on the accumulated experience both of the Judaeo-Christian religious tradition and of the Anglo-American political tradition of ordered liberty, there is for practical purposes an infinite amount of wisdom and commonsense in its pages. However much you take out, somehow there’s always a little more left–on for example the real meaning of tolerance or the necessity of patriotism. You simply have to turn the page.”

John O’Sullivan

“Political religion first emerged out of the cauldron of the French Revolution as Jacobinism. In his short but compelling book Herb London shows that today’s militant secularists are, in their own way, the heirs of the Jacobins- but with a difference. While the Jacobins had a positive, as they saw it, program; todays militant secularists are merely negative. But, as London shows, their hostility to the values underlying American life, at time when they are under attack from radical Islam, represents a threat we shouldn’t underestimate.”

Fred Siegel,
The Cooper Union for Science and Art

“I suspected there was something amiss with the secular humanist purrings and now Herb London has made it all very clear with wide learning and deep insight for which I am grateful. This is an essential book.”

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
Founder and Editor in Chief
The American Spectator

“With wisdom distilled by a lifetime’s engagement with ideas that matter, Herb London offers a compelling invitation to believe again in truths upon which our future depends.”

(The Rev.) Richard John Neuhaus
Editor in Chief First Things

“No one, to my knowledge, has done a better or more lucid job of exposing the fallacies and depredations of radical secular humanism than Herbert London does in this wonderfully trenchant and powerfully argued little book.”

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