Zionism and the West

The Cultural and Religious Context The 19th century English poet and critic Matthew Arnold once observed that culture gives us a picture of how our world should be and then compels us to go out and “make it prevail.” Westerners have been doing just that for at least 500 years, and as a consequence there…

The year 2004 passed without any mention of the 300th anniversary of the death of John Locke. But thinking about Locke and his contributions made me think almost at once of the conflict in the Middle East; about ethnocentrism, the role of religious identity and political identity; the ways that secularism and liberalism are unique…