Iran Tries to Bully Azerbaijan into Distancing Itself from Israel
How should Jerusalem respond?
October 21, 2021
A Bad Faith Attempt to Put Faith to Use in Defense of Liberal Democracy
Four professors commit the sin of which they accuse nationalists.
In their recent book, Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy, four scholars—an American Jew, an American Christian, and two German Lutherans—seek to address, from a religious perspective, what is ailing liberal democracies in Europe an America. Their common mission, writes Daniel Johnson in his review, is “to save their faiths from being co-opted by illiberal nationalists who are hell-bent on undermining liberal democracy. But, Johnson points out, they err in ignoring the close relationship between liberalism and nationalism in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and their assessment of the present is equally flawed:
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Europe Is Rising to the Challenge of Anti-Semitism Because of Its Own Judaic Roots
Why Brussels needs Jerusalem.
Ambivalence Toward the Jewish State, Rather Than Poverty, Might Be the Cause of Rising Israeli-Arab Crime Rates
Why “Arab Lives Matter” wants more policing, not less.
A Bad Faith Attempt to Put Faith to Use in Defense of Liberal Democracy
Four professors commit the sin of which they accuse nationalists.
What the Biblical Prohibition on Tattooing Says about Human Dignity and Holiness
Learning from the exceptions as well as the rule.