Month: May 2020

• May 6, 2020

  Michael Walzer’s The Revolution Of The Saints: The Discipline Of Work And The Discipline Of Faith

  Fittingly perhaps, I just finished reading Michael Walzer’s The Revolution of the Saints: A Study of the Origins of Radical Politics (1965). Walzer’s subject is Calvinism on the continent and Puritanism in England. His aim is to shed fresh light on what crucial role Puritan theology, ideology, and conduct played in the creation of a Puritan…
• May 4, 2020

  What Mayor De Blasio’s Order Tells Us About The Wasteland Called Secular Modernity

  A Hasidic Funeral On April 28 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a reported 2500 Hasidic Jewish men and women came out to mourn the death of a beloved Hasidic rabbi. Eye witness reports described the streets as packed with people, many of whom were neither wearing masks nor obeying social distancing. In an especially dramatic and forceful…