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Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. During 2019, he is serving on the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff in the office of the secretary. He is a 2017 winner of the ...
Berkowitz on the John Batchelor Show: “there’s a great confusion when we talk about religion”
Hoover senior fellow Peter Berkowitz discusses religion in the United States on the John Batchelor Show. Topics include the discourse on freedom of religion in the United States, Islam in the United States, and John Rawls’s political theories.
The Persistence of Religion
Everyone knows that we live in a secular age...
A Misguided Resolution To The Culture Wars
Thirty years after the phrase came into vogue, the culture wars are alive and well—and more heated and complex than ever. A comprehensive peace is not in the cards.
Book Review: In a Fragmented Age, Spotlighting the Core of What Unites Us
It is a commonplace belief that contemporary life's dizzying pace of change and its rapid multiplication of choices have fragmented American culture. The conflict between religion and secularism is only the most longstanding and obvious division.
Going Backwards in Beirut
Hezbollah still holds power despite losing the election. . . .
Netanyahu Surprises at 10th Annual Herzliya Conference
A willingness to seek political negotiations with the Palestinians is a departure for Israel's prime minister. . . .
Faking Left
Among their many aspirations for his presidency, Barack Obama’s admirers nurse a persistent hope that he might be able to end the culture wars...
The Left's Hollow Complaints About Hobby Lobby
Progressives are fond of saying that they stand for empathy and compromise, and are quick to blame conservatives for polarizing our politics. Their feverish reaction last week to the Supreme Court’s thoughtful 5-4 decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. shows that progressives could use more of the virtues they claim as their own.
Obama's Middle East Gambit
Masters of the art teach that subtlety, indirection, and on occasion mis-direction are crucial to successful diplomacy...
Mitt Romney's Voodoo Dolls
Defeated at nearly every level in the 2008 elections, Republicans were supposed to be using the current four-year stretch in purgatory to rethink the issues, redefine themselves as a party, and (most of all) select a charismatic leader to get them back in the game...
A Usurpation of National Sovereignty
The controversy sparked by the Sept. 15, 2009, publication of the Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, otherwise known as the Goldstone Report, may appear to exclusively concern the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. . . .
A Heretic At Duke Divinity School
The dean brings charges of ‘unprofessional conduct’ for a vigorous defense of free inquiry.
Veiled Threat?
France may have a case for banning the burqa. By Peter Berkowitz.
Academia Goes Silent on Free Speech
Professors have a professional interest in—indeed a professional duty to uphold—liberty of thought and discussion...
Religion in America
Peter Berkowitz on American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell, with the assistance of Shaylyn Romney Garrett.