On Friday the High Court granted an interdict to stop Mohammed Vawda, a local Muslim businessman, from burning the Bible. Unfortunately, the media reports I’ve read don’t explain the constitutional interpretation that the judge relied on when making the decision. They also don’t explain whether the case was judged narrowly, or whether it sets a [...]

Ross Douthat on Angels & Demons author Dan Brown: [Brown] isn’t a serious novelist, but he’s a deadly serious writer: His thrilling plots, he’s said, are there to make the books’ didacticism go down easy, so that readers don’t realize till the end “how much they are learning along the way.” He’s working in the [...]