Jean Bethke Elshtain

Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social

Political Ethics at the University of Chicago

Jean is a political philosopher. Her books include “Public Man”, “Private Woman: Women in Social Thought”, “The Family in Political Thought”, and “Democracy on Trial.” In 2006, she was appointed by President George W. Bush to the Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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America is Too Damn Religious

With Jean Bethke Elshtain, William A. Galston, Susan Jacoby, Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Albert J. Raboteau, Alan Wolfe
February 7, 2007

From its founding, America has been celebrated as nation grounded in the principals of freedom of religion and separation of church and state. But skeptics question the secularism of laws and policies that mirror religious values, such as those that outlaw same-sex marriage and protect prayer in school, and the influence of traditional religious organizations in American politics. Are the ideals of a secular state being upheld in American law and policy, or is the United States just too damn…

America is Too Damn Religious

With Jean Bethke Elshtain, William A. Galston, Susan Jacoby, Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Albert J. Raboteau, Alan Wolfe
February 7, 2007

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