We can honor the past without trapping ourselves inside it.
Religion & Political Philosophy
Our Public Square Lacks An Understanding Both Religion and Political Thought. Reason and Revelation. Athens and Jerusalem. Natural Right and Natural Law. Justice, Prudence, and the Common Good. Journalists, writers, public intellectuals, and academics today are often either ignorant or hostile to the most important questions we discuss here.
Americans have become rusty at arguing about religion in public.
What Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI means for republican government.
Severing it from enduring truths risks disaster.
A sure guide to understand America.
Joseph Smith achieved a remarkable degree of success and influence.
They ignore the character befitting republican government.
From The Abolition of Man to “Screwtape Proposes a Toast.”
The bonding of religious and civil liberty we enjoy in America would have been impossible in the ancient world.
They need to cease their public quarrel.