When modern revolutionaries took up the task of translating the felt meaning of political revolution into a constitutional order of…
Political theology and liberalism
political theology
“Killing in the Name of. . .”
Ayça Çubukçu on state sovereignty and the political theology of humanitarian intervention with regard to the ongoing crisis in Libya,…
London postcard
One of the great benefits of conducting research at the British Library is that days off provide the opportunity to…
American Katechon
Nicolas Guilhot on when political theology became international relations theory.
Sovereignty and sacrifice in American politics
In The Utopian, Yale Law professor Paul W. Kahn argues that the discourse and imaginary of secular political theory fail…
A genuine “theologico-political” phenomenon
Most observers, even the otherwise sober-minded journal The Economist, agree that the anticipation and then election of Barack Obama to…
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…
The rules of the games
The Stillborn God begins as a book about two chess games. Part of the book explains, in all too cursory…
Two books, oddly yoked together
Mark Lilla's The Stillborn God feels like two books, oddly yoked together. One is a fascinating study, which traces a…
Political theology & liberal democracy
The idea of modern liberalism depends decisively on a jettisoning of theology as a source for arguing about politics: If…