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March 4, 2025

What Religion Owes Democracy, and What Democracy Owes Religion

Restoring the church-state balance.

A gay, secular Jew and a classical liberal, Jonathan Rauch has found himself increasingly out of step with the American left. He has also changed his thinking dramatically on the proper role of religion in public life, from fearing it to believing religion—and especially traditional Christianity—can play a salutary, and perhaps irreplaceable, role in civic culture. Reviewing Rauch’s new book on this subject, Peter Berkowitz presents his own interpretation:

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March 4, 2025

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