Each month the Reading Wheel Review will typically feature a podcast-style interview with the author or scholar related to our featured book. This month we have engaged with Kevin Vallier’s All the Kingdoms of the World, and we end the month with a conversation between Kevin and the CRCD’s executive
In the summer of 2023 Alan Kahan introduced his Freedom From Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism at the Princeton University Press website. Liberalism, he argues, “faces a global challenge from populism. To successfully meet this challenge, liberals must return to certain features of liberalism common in the nineteenth century but largely
The United States has a long history of anti-Catholicism. In 1835, the Rev. Lyman Beecher, a Congregationalist minister, wrote in “A Plea for the West,” for example: It is to the political claims and character of the Catholic religion, and its church and state alliance with the political and ecclesiastical governments of
Long ago, the great world religions governed the human race. Their power was limited only by one another. Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism (we mustn’t forget the Zoroastrians), Judaism, Christianity, and Islam created great civilizations that infused human lives with sacredness and meaning. The great faiths shaped our laws, our
