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Questions of Liberty 0
- January/February 2011
- January 1, 2011
Erwin Chemerinsky (J.D. Harvard Law School, '78) is Founding Dean of the U.C. Irvine School of Law, an author of numerous legal treatises and more than 100 law review articles, a renowned constitution scholar, and a veteran U.S. court of appeals and U.S. Supreme Court litigator. Dean Chemerinsky, thank you for graciously agreeing to be
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The Christian Persecutory Impulse 0
- January/February 2011
- January 1, 2011
There are many different forms of relgious intolernace, and, over the centuries, many faiths have persecuted. In the Western context, however, it is the persecution of Christians, by Christians, especially in the two centuries after the Reformation, that is most important, because it still shapes relationships between peoples of different faiths and confessions today. Yet
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Lawful, But Not Helpful 0
- January/February 2011
- January 1, 2011
As of this writing anyway—though the so-called &”Ground Zero&” mosque controversy is still unresolved—at least the Gainesville, Florida, pastor who threatened to burn the Koran as a public protest against the mosque has backed off. No Koran burnings by Christian clergy, at least for now. However much as many Americans could understand his frustration,
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A Mosque Too Close?0
- January/February 2011
- January 1, 2011
The controversy over the so-called Ground Zero mosque in New York City in some ways demonstrates a failure of leadership. But before we identify those failures, let us review the situation more broadly. Muslims are currently worshipping at a building that formerly housed a coat manufacturer. The facility is a couple of long blocks away
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Integral History 0
- January/February 2011
- January 1, 2011
Not the catchiest of titles, but I use it for a reason. The historian Will Durant spent nearly 50 years writing The Story of Civilization. It put him in the company of such ambitious personal historians as Edward Gibbon and Winston Churchill. Like Churchill, Durant was able to stamp history with a well-reasoned, narrative style.
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A Turning Point 0
- November/December 2010
- November 1, 2010
The middle of the seventeenth century was a key turning point in the history of religious war. The Thirty Years’ War was ended by the Peace of Westphalia (1648), which institutionalized the principle that princes could choose the religion of their state and that their choice was to be respected by other princes, even those
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