The politics of God

In this fascinating essay from New York Times Magazine by Columbia University professor Mark Lilla, the religiously based political perspective of the East is compared and contrasted with the rationally based politics of the West. "We all face the same questions of political existence," Lilla says, "yet their way of answering them has become alien to us. On one shore, political institutions are conceived in terms of divine authority and spiritual redemption; on the other they are not. And that, as Robert Frost might have put it, makes all the difference." To read the entire New York Times Magazine essay please click here.