For the past several decades, Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been everywhere. She has been a New Atheist, a Dutch parliamentarian, and a public intellectual living under Islamist death threats; now, to the shock of many, she has converted to Christianity and launched her own media platform to advocate for the restoration of the West called Couarge.Media.
In retrospect, there were indications that Hirsi Ali was considering Christianity. In 2021, I interviewed both Hirsi Ali and her husband historian Niall Ferguson within a few weeks of each other. Both had just released books; I was reviewing Ferguson’s Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe for The American Conservative and Hirsi Ali’s Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights for this publication. Later, going over my transcripts, I noted with interest that both Ferguson and Hirsi Ali had brought up—and defended—Christianity during the interviews unprompted.
