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David (and Jim), it doesn’t follow that if we allow torture against terrorists we should also allow it against all manner of domestic criminals. The premise of the best pro-torture argument is: while torture is normally reprehensible, there is one instance in which it clears the moral bar: if by torturing one person we can…

As I was reading descriptions of Hillary Clinton’s “For Such a Time as This” faith tour in South Carolina over the last few days I got to thinking about the 1990s, and the delight with which United Methodists embraced the First Lady, at the time arguably their most famous member. So I dug a few…

I’m posting a few back-and-forths from a recent interview I did with Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean about the DNC’s stepped-up religious outreach program, called Faith in Action. A couple of the more telling lines, in my opinion, are these: What I believe is not that the people disagree with our values–they believed that…

The Economist is importing its popular series of London debates to New York on Saturday, November 10. Join Richard Neuhaus, Walter Russell Mead, Barry Lynn, and Irshad Manji as they face off over the question of whether religion and politics should always be kept separate. Moderated by Economist editor-in-chief John Micklethwait, the audience will decide…
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