A fundamental misunderstanding of religion.
Liberal Man of Faith?
Louis Brandeis was smeared for his “Jewish instinct.”
Not antithetical, but complementary.
And thus misjudged the threat of radical Islam.
Benjamin Constant’s On Religion.
Hebrew Scripture rejects the divine right of kings.
The message of the scandal of particularity.
Both kings and sages are servants.
And what they mean for Israel.
From Thanksgiving to September 11.
Religion and the crisis of the democratic state of mind.
An antidote to the politics of anger and competitive victimhood.
“The dogma lives loudly within you.”