Remembering Who We Are
Remembering Who We Are Share Trending religio, is derived from the same root as “ligament.” Similarly, the medieval historian Ibn Khaldun called it ‘asabiya, a group consciousness or sense of shared space that is strong in the tribe but weak in the larger secular society. We should ask how the Republic – a society of strangers – within which we live may be renewed and defended when most customary bonds have been weakened, broken, or even subverted. Francis Lieber acknowledged the Judeo-Christian spiritual capital upon which the West had been built – “the moral value of the ...