Peter Berkowitz

The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions by michael walzer yale, 192 pages, $26 Michael Walzer’s name is associated with the summons to undertake social criticism that is engaged: that is, rooted in actual circumstances; cognizant of real people’s wants, . . . . Continue Reading »

Is Democracy Possible Here? Principles for a New Political Debate by Ronald Dworkin Princeton University Press, 192 pages, $19.95 In November 1996, First Things ran a symposium called “The End of Democracy?” asking at what point, if left unchecked, would the judicial usurpation of . . . . Continue Reading »

Stephen Toulmin’s Return to Reason provides an occasion to reflect on the remarkable fact that our faith in reason is currently on the decline—and that our professors are taking the lead in killing it. Of course that part of reasoning that involves the ability to calculate and create is . . . . Continue Reading »

On good liberal grounds alone, academic liberals should appreciate David Walsh’s powerful new defense of . . . . Continue Reading »

The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism By Michael Oakeshott, Edited by Timothy Fuller. Yale University Press, 139 pages, $25. In his Editor’s Introduction, Timothy Fuller informs the reader that those who were best acquainted with Michael Oakeshott and his thought cannot explain why . . . . Continue Reading »