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Yesterday and Today 0
- September/October 2023
- September 1, 2023
Ruminations of a second-generation Holocaust survivor For many years I served as a policy and advocacy official with the American Jewish Committee, and today I remain active in pursuing the issues and promoting the values to which I dedicated my career. I am a Religious Freedom Fellow at the Freedom Forum, a leader on civil
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Doing Unto Others and the Limits of Democracy 0
- September/October 2023
- September 1, 2023
In 2015, a few months before he died, Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia spoke to law students at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In the question-and-answer period a student asked Scalia whether courts have a responsibility to protect minorities that can’t win rights through the political process. Scalia’s response was typically blunt. No, he said.
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At the Altar of Patriotism 0
- September/October 2023
- September 1, 2023
The outsized influence of ‘civil religion’ and what it means for Americans today. In 1863, prominent Unitarian pastor Henry W. Bellows preached a rousing war sermon to his New York congregation. He called the sermon “Unconditional Loyalty,” and he meant every word of it. He warned his congregation against the treasonous implications of criticizing the
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Adventures in Christian Authoritarianism 0
- July/August 2023
- July 1, 2023
Book Review In his recent book, Common Good Constitutionalism (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2022), Harvard University law professor Adrian Vermuele lays out a provocative judicial philosophy. It’s an approach some call “bold” and “thought-provoking” and others simply describe as “dangerous.” Adrian Vermeule, the controversial professor of law at Harvard University, first described his judicial philosophy—common-good
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