The Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, widely considered one of today’s foremost thinkers, is unusual in that he has never hidden his Catholic beliefs and has. . .
American Jews are “secure” but lack “self-confidence.” So Irving Kristol wrote in 1991. Right then; right now?
Can secularists lead moral lives? Of course. What about an entire nation? Of course not.
The “millennial” generation has increasingly dispensed with old bonds of nation, community, and religion. Is the trend sustainable?
A growing Jewish revival in the defiantly secular metropolis is symptomatic of an unprecedented shift in Israel’s religious culture.
The proposed establishment of civil marriage in Israel, although in apparent conflict with Jewish tradition, could help to diminish animosity toward Judaism among secular Israelis.
With greater participation of haredim in the life of the country, will secular Israelis shed their reflexive contempt for this community and learn something from. . .
Social scientists report that religious believers are healthier and happier than non-believers; believers should think twice before celebrating.
Relegated to the sidelines by early secular Zionists, the Talmud has been resurrected in Israeli culture. But has its triumph come too late?
Reports of the demise of religion in America have been greatly exaggerated, according to a new study; but the nature of belief is changing.
Secular universities, of all places, have become a principal arena where the best Christian ideas do battle with the most sophisticated versions of the materialist. . .
Does belief in America’s distinctive democracy—a government with clear limits defined by the natural rights of the governed—entail religious belief?
Busily denouncing Western intolerance, the political philosopher Martha Nussbaum fails to consider the possibility of genuine conflict between unreformed religion and secular democracy.
In their insistence on freedom from religion in the name of human rights, Europeans risk ultimately corroding the very foundations of those rights.