The View from This Seat

Seventy-five years ago, on March 26, 1945, Viktor Frankl celebrated his 40 th birthday in the worst conditions imaginable. He was confined...

Chapter Two of my book The Limits of Liberalism , which I am updating and slightly revising this year, is titled “Contemporary Liberalism.” ...

All of you old-timers like me who grew up in Baptist, Methodist, or other “evangelical” churches know the name Fanny Crosby, the blind woma...

Even though it dates back to 1452, until fairly recently I had never heard of the Doctrine of Discovery (DofD)—and perhaps most Americans ar...

Today, March 10, is an important Jewish holiday. Purim, which began at sunset last night, celebrates the fifth century B.C.E. victory of th...

Christianism isn’t exactly a household word, but it expresses an important, and troubling, aspect of USAmerican religious and political ...

The blog posting I made on January 25 was titled “Still Seeing the Limits of Liberalism.” It was based on the Preface of my book The Limits...