Fourth of July festivities are over but fireworks continue over the separation of church and state. Recent Supreme Court rulings on the Ten Commandments, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s announced retirement, and the search for her replacement put this hot-button issue back on the front burner.
New York University Law professor and Islamic scholar Noah Feldman puts forth a bold new plan he thinks will achieve a church-state solution all Americans can live with, in harmony.
Hear about Feldman’s new grand bargain for religion in America.
Guests:
Noah Feldman, professor at New York University Law School, author of “Divided by God: America’s Church-State Problem–and What We Should Do About It,” his article
“A Church-State Solution” was this week’s New York Times Magazine cover story
Melissa Rogers, visiting professor of religion and public policy at Wake Forest University Divinity School
Jack Beatty, On Point News Analyst, senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly.
