Samuel Moyn's essay, "Personalism, Community, and the Origins of Human Rights," makes an important contribution to our understanding of the…
On the recognition of human rights
individualism
Working on individualism
Even the most open-minded social scientists—those who are up for studying almost any social group or activity—tend to find the…
“Bob and weave”: A response to Wolterstorff
Nicholas Wolterstorff's calm, careful, humble response to my posts might make me look like an overly pugilistic polemicist. But I…
The fine texture: A response to Smith
I will respond here to the three postings on The Immanent Frame by James K. A. Smith concerning my Justice:…
Whig Calvinism?
I'll close my contribution to this symposium with some broad brush strokes by suggesting that Wolterstorff's project can be seen…
This is our moment, this is our time
For a long time after November 4, I found it hard to believe that Barack Obama had actually been elected…
Being Benedict
The recent visit of Benedict XVI to the U.S. demonstrates once again the uncanny ability of the most influential popes…
Religious reasons & secular revelations
That Jürgen Habermas and I probably agree on most fundamental issues does not mean that there are no differences between…
After Durkheim
I continue, as I reread it, to have the highest opinion of A Secular Age and to believe that it…