Liberalism
Fairness vs. loyalty.
Gertrude Himmelfarb, historian of Victorian Britain and of the 18th-century Enlightenment, has lately devoted special attention to Jewish history and culture. What’s the connection?
There is a liberal slant in biblical studies, but it has an older and more persistent source than merely the general liberalism or leftism of today’s academy.
American Jews, following American liberalism, have abandoned belief in the nation-state, non-voluntary communities, and religion in the public square.
Is the recent upsurge of European populism a blip on the historical horizon, or the sign of a fundamental restructuring of the continent’s order?
What a new history of American civil religion gets wrong.
To condemn Israel, the New York Times unleashes the philosophers.
The Arab Spring and the Islamic winter.
A society that honors and reveres nothing but individual freedom will become a society that honors and reveres nothing at all.
The Ten Commandments tell us nothing directly, and little indirectly, about the proper limits of government power. For that we must turn to John Locke.
Two political alternatives, each susceptible of deformation.
A conflict between inflamed populism and the ideology of global, technocratic empire.
A conflict is brewing over the shape of the international order. It centers around an idea—a biblical idea—long thought discredited by political elites.