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From “Maternity” by Marc Chagall, 1912.
Response to May's Essay

May 3, 2021

The Death and Potential Rebirth of the Liberal Self: A Discussion

By Nathan Shields, Ari Lamm, Jonathan Silver

Modern freedoms leave us wanting more. The author of our monthly essay joins us and a noted rabbi to talk about how conversion came to be an antidote to liberal restlessness.

To discuss our May essay about conversion and liberalism, “The Present, Past, and Prehistory of Conversion,” we invited its author, the composer Nathan Shields, to speak with Mosaic‘s editor Jonathan Silver and the rabbi and theologian Ari Lamm. You can watch that discussion below, or read a transcript of it.

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Responses to May 's Essay