Over at Foreign Affairs, Andrew Preston has written an article exploring the paradox of religion in U.S. foreign policy.
Democracy, diplomacy, and religious freedom
George W. Bush
9/11 chronomania
Under its congressional mandate to “examine and report upon the facts and causes relating to the terrorist attacks…[and] make a…
Democracy under exception
I agree with Kahn (and with Schmitt) about the fact that political theory should leave room for decision and exception.…
The geopolitical imperative?
Ritualistic evocations of "America" . . . and the deep-seated sense that somehow the United States is sacrosanct space—war, by…
From Bush to Obama, the faith-based initiative is still all politics
Late last week, the Brookings Institute convened a day-long conference marking the tenth anniversary of the faith-based initiative. Josh DuBois,…
The primacy of practice
Here's an "old thing" which relates, I think, to President Obama and the debate about civil religion---the primacy of practice.…
Waking up to still being a faith-based nation
The Bush administration has widely been assumed to have significantly favored evangelical Christian perspectives and organizations in its policies. A…
An internationalist president
In the Muslim world, as in Europe and much of the world, Obama is welcomed as an internationalist president.
Welcome to the faith-based economy
Last week as I listened, along with many other Americans and others around the world, to President Bush's most recent…
Bush, Benedict, and freedom as God’s gift
"During their meeting, the Holy Father and the President discussed a number of topics of common interest to the Holy…