Harvey Cox explores the spiritual implications of an old theme from Adam Smith
Politics
Mere Natural Law: A Review
Hadley Arkes’s new book grounds the foundations of Natural Law in the truths of moral reason.
Our “Aeterni Patris” Moment? Musings on Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy and Protestant Retrieval
Political retrieval has always been a more nuanced affair for Protestants.
The Political Challenge of Jonah: Reflections on Niebuhr and Postliberalism
The political aspects of the Book of Jonah are too frequently overlooked.
Christianity, The Best Friend to Good Government
Who is the final arbiter for Christian conduct in politics?
When Rights Go Wrong: Simone Weil on Uprootedness and the Way Forward
70 years on, Simone Weil’s “The Need for Roots” remains prescient in diagnosing modern social and political woes.
Sacred Polities, Natural Law and the Law of the Nations in the 16th-17th Centuries
Brad Littlejohn looks for the positives in an overall disappointing volume on Natural Law in the Early Modern era
Can A “Christian Nation” Be Good For Everybody?
Kevin DeYoung reviews an important new book on religious liberty in the USA.
Christendom, Rightly Understood
Prevailing evangelical understandings of what “Christendom” is or was are often hugely mistaken.
America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding: A Review
Brad Littlejohn reviews Robert Reilly’s bizarre case for the influence of Roman Catholicism upon the American founding.