October 06, 2014
A Genuinely Liberal Approach to Religion in Politics
I’m honored to have the lead essay on Cato Unbound this month. In the essay, I lay out what I take to be a genuinely liberal approach to religion in…
Posts filed under liberalism
June 16, 2014
Happy Liberalism Day!
Today is Liberalism Day. More info at Liberalism Unrelinquished In the 17th and 18th centuries there was an ascendant cultural outlook that may be termed the liberal outlook. It was…
March 17, 2014
Basing Libertarianism in the Harm Principle
This is the second in a small series of posts that explain a little of what I try to do in my recent book, Toleration. The first post is here….
March 03, 2014
Toleration & Judging
My book, Toleration, is now available so I thought I would write up a few posts related to it. This first post will also be up on Polity’s blog. For…
January 24, 2014
The Myth of Religious Violence
Calm down. You might like this post. I’ve just finishing reading William Cavanaugh’s very bold and challenging new book, The Myth of Religious Violence. For Cavanaugh, the myth of religious…
January 15, 2014
The Spirit of Anti-Neutralism
I’m a liberal neutralist. I think that if we must have politics, governments should try insofar as possible to avoid promoting one conception of the good and right, worldviews, religions,…