Democracy
Rediscovering our moral purpose.
Not the trappings but the foundations of statehood matter.
He was “remarkably comfortable with American Jews.”
Erdogan’s electoral hopes were dashed. Will that be enough to stop him?
Proof how much Bellow matters to our democratic society.
Irving Kristol, the so-called godfather of neoconservatism, is best known today for his political thought; but he was also deeply preoccupied with questions of religion.. . .
The great mid-20th-century Christian theologian Reinhold Niebuhr developed a political theory, dubbed “Christian realism,” that sought to synthesize the demands of Christian ethics with the. . .
Can Israel continue to be both Jewish and democratic? According to Evelyn Gordon, that depends on your definition of democracy. The answer is emphatically yes,. . .
The U.S. has a long history of supporting despotic regimes in the Middle East in the name of stability. They have also been surprised when. . .
Many are the substitutes for God invented by non-believers; they have turned out to be no substitutes at all. But can the West recover its. . .
“If American politicians had treated [Andrei] Sakharov the way American leaders today are treating Egyptian dissidents, the Soviet Union might still exist.” (Interview by David Horovitz.)
To understand the Arab world’s encounter with democratic modernity—one of the titanic political struggles of our age—it helps to know your Alexis de Tocqueville.
Arabs are horrified at the thought that the Syrian civil war could once again redraw the map of the Middle East. Infinitely more worrying. . .