Liberalism
Benjamin Constant’s On Religion.
The question sounds absurd, but anti-circumcision activists are winning legal and policy victories—and overturning the definition of freedom of religion in the process.
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?
