Liberalism

Patrick Deneen on liberalism’s hegemonic sense of freedom

Peter J. Leithart on the relationship between ecclesial unity and religious liberty

Stanley Hauerwas on why “freedom of religion” carries subtle temptations

Kenneth R. Craycraft, Jr. (and Michael Sandel) on why religious freedom is poorly understood (and vulnerable)

John Milbank on the pure (if hypothetical) individual of liberalism

Alasdair MacIntyre on the systematic rejection of the tradition of the virtues in modern political institutions

William Cavanaugh on how we must be disciples in public, not just citizens

T. S. Eliot on the Church’s duty to interfere with the World

FEATURED GUESTS: Christian Smith, David L. Schindler, Sara Anson Vaux, Melvyn Bragg, Timothy Larsen, and Ralph C. Wood

On his blog, What I Saw in America, political theorist Patrick Deneen often questions some of the fundamental assumptions of classic liberalism, assumptions which contradict the wisdom of premodern political thinkers.

Richard Rorty’s tangled spiritual pilgrimage has origins in being the grandson of social gospel theologian Walter Rauschenbusch and the son of committed Leninists.

Philip Turner examines “the subversion of Christian belief and practice by the logic of autonomous individualism”