It’s Dangerous to Believe

In It’s Dangerous to Believe, Mary Eberstadt lays out the case that traditional Christians in the West face a new and growing intolerance. Cases of religious-liberty disputes, she shows, are not isolated incidents but symptoms of a wider cultural turn against believers who hold fast to historical Christian teaching.

Drawing on legal cases, policy battles, and personal stories, Eberstadt documents how the climate has shifted — and how the dynamics resemble the moral panics of past eras. Yet the book is finally not a lament but a call: a call for fairness, for honest pluralism, and for renewed civic friendship across deep moral differences.

Published by HarperCollins, the book features a Foreword by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput and an Afterword by George Weigel.