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Walking a Thin Line 0
- March/April 2005
- March 1, 2005
Since September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush and the United States Congress have been sometimes frantically creating legislation that will make America more secure. In the process, however, they are walking a thin line between protecting and trampling Americans' civil liberties. As our government officials work overtime to protect us from terrorists, they need
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Voting as a Matter of Faith 0
- November/December 2004
- November 1, 2004
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, ushered religion into the center of American politics. In the three years since, President George W. Bush and his administration have made sure it stayed there. And then earlier this year the Catholic Church turned the relationship between faith and politics into a campaign issue. Civil religion is
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Vive la liberté? An Uncertain Future for Religious Liberty in France 0
- January/February 2023
- January 1, 2023
Once a centerpiece of the French liberal tradition, laïcité takes an intolerant turn. French laïcité can be translated into English as “state secularism.” In line with this translation, laïcité is often seen as an official form of state hostility toward organized religion, banning displays of religiosity from public spaces. However, neither this translation nor this
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Virtue and Freedom 0
- May/June 2015
- May 1, 2015
In civilized discourse it is essential that proper distinctions be made. This I find is especially true in discussions regarding freedom, lest, in attempting to explain it to others, we end up with merely explaining it away. Mortimer Adler tells us in his two-volume work, The Idea of Freedom, that there are three basic senses
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Very Public Prayers 0
- March/April 2009
- March 1, 2009
Well before the actual inauguration of President Barak Obama there was a chorus of complaints about his choice of Rick Warren to give the inauguration prayer. What might just as easily have been interpreted as an attempt to link up with a populist expression of mainstream religious values was interpreted as a tilt toward the
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Untying the Religious Liberty Knot 0
- January/February 2024
- January 1, 2024
An interview with author and professor Thomas C. Berg Not too long ago, religious liberty was a cherished, bipartisan constitutional value. Even as late as 1993, both sides of the political aisle in Congress rallied to pass, almost unanimously, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, giving a considerable boost to federal religious-liberty protection. Three decades later,
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