American founding
As two new books show, the influence of the Hebrew Bible (and of biblical models) on the founding generations of Americans was as vast as the new country they were trying to create.
Leviticus on the Fourth of July.
The link between the sacrifice of American dead and the freedom that we, the living, enjoy.
“Your story is our story and your God is our God.”
Whence, and whither, religious liberty?
A new online course illuminates how Jewish teachings, combined with the age’s best Enlightenment sensibilities, helped to create and to guide the young republic.
An antidote to the politics of anger and competitive victimhood.
What a new history of American civil religion gets wrong.
Cecil B. DeMille’s absent heirs.
It’s what the Puritans did.
The American exception.
What the “realists” get wrong.
Contemporary debates forget that it serves a distinct social and moral purpose.
Where previous societies had “tolerated” religious minorities, the U.S. Constitution was the first to promote free religious practice.
