What John Locke learned from Moses.

Individual freedom and traditional sensibilities.

Religious toleration and its limits.

As society loses its moral grounding, cooperation becomes impossible, while the state is forced to tend to the consequences of moral collapse.

And why Israel and the U.S. should stop neglecting the Hebrew Bible.

The philosophy of freedom and its discontents.

America is a story of freedom, not simply an abstraction.

And perhaps some enlightened despots.

John Fortescue’s Mosaic constitution and John Selden’s Noahide Laws.

Reading Locke, Mill, and Tocqueville in Jerusalem.

What Jews can teach Christians, and vice-versa.

There is more than meets the eye to Leo Strauss’s claim that philosophers, himself included, cannot be religious believers.

Why did John Selden, the most learned man in England, choose to study the Talmud when imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1629? To. . .