The Naked Public Square

First Things' web site has just posted the sympos ium from the last issue on the 20th anniversary of Father Richard John Neuhaus' classic work The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America. Two decades on, it remains the single best work I've ever read on the proper role of religion in public discourse in a liberal democracy. The contributors to the symposium are generally positive in their appraisal, although many offer candid and constructive critiques of at least portions of Neuhaus' argument. Well worth reading.