Beyond false and misleading dichotomies.
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.
It’s hard to see how Publius and his fellow founders could have done better.
We can honor the past without trapping ourselves inside it.
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.”