Liberalism
The philosophy of freedom and its discontents.
Bad news for those who seek accommodation between Christianity and liberalism.
You can’t have human rights without human nature.
This question, and the tensions generated by it, underlie any discussion of Jewish–Christian relations.
In the debate over the place of Christianity vis-à-vis secular liberal culture, let the Church speak for itself.
In his new book, Leon Kass shows Americans how to honor the benefits of liberal democracy, including individual freedom and human equality, while recognizing their high costs.
America is a story of freedom, not simply an abstraction.
For traditional Jews and Catholics alike, liberalism has presented parallel but different dangers; so has anti-liberalism.
A noted philosopher’s critique of one of liberalism’s most treasured theories clears room for a conception of politics informed by Judaism.
And why Catholics should condemn it.
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.
