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.

“The slow-motion marginalizing and penalizing of believers.”

A video discussion about what the exodus teaches.

As several great thinkers have observed, religion encourages a positive civic culture.

Irving Kristol, the so-called godfather of neoconservatism, is best known today for his political thought; but he was also deeply preoccupied with questions of religion.. . .

The great mid-20th-century Christian theologian Reinhold Niebuhr developed a political theory, dubbed “Christian realism,” that sought to synthesize the demands of Christian ethics with the. . .

Shlomo Goren, who was the first chief rabbi of the IDF and later served as Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, did much to shape the. . .

Presidents Bush and Obama have made a habit of declaring Islam to be “a religion of peace” and offering similar statements of a generic kind.. . .