Liberalism
Modern freedoms leave us wanting more. The author of our monthly essay joins us and a noted rabbi to talk about how conversion came to be an antidote to liberal restlessness.
Longing to leave liberalism behind, everyone from Catholics to Communists is experimenting with self-transformation. What’s fueling that desire, and is it strong enough to make the break?
Samuel Goldman and Ruth Wisse tackle Jewish attitudes toward free speech, social media, and the tendency of American Jews to support ideologies that harm the Jewish community.
In 1977, a Jewish director of the ACLU famously agreed to defend the rights of neo-Nazis in Illinois to demonstrate in public. Would the same thing happen today—and should it?
Moshe Koppel’s new book Judaism Straight Up looks at today’s progressive and traditional moral psychologies and finds one wanting.
A unique mission to the world.
The case for embracing conservative ideas.
Cant and pained messages.
In his new book, Ross Douthat writes convincingly of America’s descent into decadence and torpor. Can anything stop the slide?
As society loses its moral grounding, cooperation becomes impossible, while the state is forced to tend to the consequences of moral collapse.
The historian as moralist.
Anti-Pelagianism, plus Marx’s anti-Semitism, minus religion, equals A Theory of Justice.
Liberalism need not require a naked public square.
Even as she insists on clinging to a bankrupt progressivism and “the Judaism of Sunday school.”
