It has reduced rabbis to bureaucrats subject to the temptations of patronage and corruption.

When politics takes the place of religion, the stakes change.

The death of God is greatly exaggerated.

Secularism vs. secularity.

Guess who left out God?

On Michael Walzer’s The Paradox of Liberation.

Yes—even those who normally eschew politics.

What Michael Walzer misses.

An unprecedented move that infuriated Reinhold Niebuhr.

Perhaps it’s time for the Modern Orthodox to reject the institution altogether.

Michael Walzer’s paradox is anything but.

To protect them from religious persecution.

And why is so much commentary on the subject so shallow?

Religion here is a tool of oppression. There it’s just a quaint cultural affectation.