The Silence of the Jews

Posted: Thursday, March 8, 2001
President Clinton’s eleventh-hour pardons, in particular the pardon of fugitive-billionaire Marc Rich, have raised a near-universal storm of protest. Fellow Democrats and longtime supporters of Clinton have joined in the expression of outrage.   [Full Story]

Priestess of progress

Posted: Friday, December 1, 2000
A DISCUSSION has emerged on the Right of our political spectrum about the future and its prospects. It arises from the concern that our future be one of progress rather than regress, of innovation, both technologically and socially, rather than stagnation, stale habit, and reaction.   [Full Story]

Faith in Politics
Joseph Lieberman Explains Himself
Posted: Monday, September 11, 2000
Early this spring, Senator Joseph Lieberman -- now Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman -- published In Praise of Public Life.  [Full Story]

Two Nations Were in Her Womb
Contemporary Liberal Democracy and the Political Teaching of the Bible
Posted: Wednesday, June 21, 2000
What is the relationship of liberal democracy and the political teaching of the Bible? Today, the status of this question is unclear. It is unclear why we raise it or even that we should bother to do so. This was, of course, not always the case.  [Full Story]

Does Democracy Need Religion?

Posted: Sunday, January 2, 2000
"On my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention," Tocqueville reports in Democracy in America (I, 308). Tocqueville's wonder embraces admiration as well as surprise. Though religion is not formally a part of the American political system, Tocqueville goes so far as to describe it as the first of America's political institutions by virtue of its indirect effects upon political life.  [Full Story]

Justice Is Better Than Compassion

Posted: Monday, October 18, 1999
"Liberty and justice" would be a far more appropriate slogan for Republicans than "compassionate conservatism."  [Full Story]

The Separation of Religion and Politics
The Paradoxes of Spinoza
Posted: Monday, November 14, 1988
Benedict Spinoza is the first philosophical proponent of liberal democracy. In his Theologico-Political Tractate he calls for the liberation of philosophy from theology and for the subordination of religion to politics.  [Full Story]

God's Politics
Lessons from The Beginning
Posted: Friday, December 2, 1983
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