Liberalism

The modern way of life works if you want to make money, but there are bigger questions that it just can’t answer. Judaism, the author of a new essay argues, can fill the gap.

Oct. 14 2021 12:01AM

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.

June 1 2021 12:01AM

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?

May 3 2021 3:44AM

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.

April 30 2021 12:01AM

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?

April 5 2021 12:01AM

Moshe Koppel’s new book Judaism Straight Up looks at today’s progressive and traditional moral psychologies and finds one wanting.

March 2 2021 12:01AM

Cant and pained messages.

Midge Decter
June 5 2020 12:01AM

In his new book, Ross Douthat writes convincingly of America’s descent into decadence and torpor. Can anything stop the slide?

April 1 2020 12:01AM

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

March 27 2020 12:01AM

Anti-Pelagianism, plus Marx’s anti-Semitism, minus religion, equals A Theory of Justice.

Eric Nelson
Dec. 3 2019 12:01AM

Liberalism need not require a naked public square.

Ryan T. Anderson and Robert P. George
Sept. 24 2019 12:01AM