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Liberalism & Religion

A Catholic Theologian Signs Up for Mass Cruelty
Yet another thinker puts his faith in the service of monstrous deportation policies
 • Gabriel Schoenfeld
Texas’ Efforts to Deny That Islam Is Even a Religion Will Jeopardize All Faiths
The state is cracking down not just on Muslims, but on the Constitution itself
 • Asma Uddin
AI's Facelessness Risks Soullessness—and With It Liberalism
Pope Leo's encyclical and Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophy help us see that technology cannot replace face-to-face encounters
 • Michael G. Holzman
The Disarray of Protestant Churches Is Bad News for American Liberal Democracy: A Conversation with Raymond R. Roberts
It has led to MAGA idolatry on the one hand and shallow do-goodism on the other
 • Berny Belvedere
49:07
Political Islam Is Rank Populism That Perverts a Fundamentally Liberal Faith
The Western right’s smearing of the entire religion and the left’s romanticization of it are both misguided
 • Mohammed Nosseir
What Do Liberalism and Religion Owe Each Other?
When religion becomes an identity it can't play the vital role of cultivating the virtue and morality necessary for a self-governing people
Peter Thiel Looks Everywhere for the Antichrist Except the Mirror
The tech billionaire’s AI technology is ushering in a dystopian Big Government as he races to beat his political opponents to the end times
 • Jacob Bruggeman
A Persecution Complex Links the Pilgrims and Christian Nationalism: A Conversation With Tyler Huckabee
Evangelicals are espousing a faith based on their political project, not a sincere interpretation of the Bible
 • Berny Belvedere
46:47
Tucker Carlson Is Resurrecting Christianity's Ugly Tradition of Antisemitism
In rejecting universalism, the talk show host and his recent guest, white supremacist Nick Fuentes, are rejecting Christ himself
 • Mark Tooley
Can Each Side's Faith Break the Cycle of Mutually Assured Destruction for Israelis and Palestinians?
An epistolary exchange between an Islamic scholar and a rabbi points to the concept of universal empathy in their traditions as the key
 • Michael G. Holzman and Mustafa Akyol
Political Triumphalism Is Contrary to the Spirit of Yom Kippur
The Jewish holiday’s emphasis on repentance requires confronting our past sins, not burying them
 • Michael G. Holzman
Yoram Hazony’s National Conservatism Wants to Abandon Liberal Democracy so that the Jewish People Maintain Hegemony in Israel
He wants to give Protestant America the right to disempower other faiths and ethnic groups so that Israel can do the same
 • Michael G. Holzman
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