The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Rosie Bloor.
And I'm Jason Palmer.
Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
For many decades, religion has been in decline in the West and society has become more secular.
But in the past five years, both those trends have flatlined.
So has secularism passed its peak?
And an increasing number of best-selling and prize-winning books are doing away with inverted commas,
quotation marks.
Language purists are reeling.
Our correspondent asks what all of the, quote, fuss is about.
But first...
The last we heard,
America was going to pause for two weeks before making a decision as to whether to join Israel in its attacks on Iran.
That was a feint.
U.S.
Central Command conducted a precision strike in the middle of the night against three nuclear facilities in Iran.
Over the weekend, American stealth bombers and submarine-launched missiles took aim at Fordow,
Natanz, and Isfahan.