Sublime

That requires covenantal, not just contractual, politics.

There is the common ground of the common good, and there are the semi-private domains of our diverse religious traditions. We are responsible to society for the former, to our own community for the latter.

Justice in the Hebrew Bible is thus more than a matter of law. It restores a broken order.

Jewish history is a living testimony to the power of ideas,

The Jews, therefore, stand right at the center of the perennial attempt to give human life the dignity of a purpose.”7

Modern politics and economics were built on the foundation of the rational pursuit of self-interest.

free society—that precarious balance between the conflicting principles of liberty and order—exists not through the rule of law alone, but through a system of education that allows every individual to internalize the law and thus become its master, not its slave.