Abstract
[...]if we want decent politics to prevail anywhere, to move at all from Hobbes to Locke (though in some places today, Hobbesian sovereignty seems mighty attractive compared to the alternatives on hand), we need to rebuild the idea of citizenship. Perhaps, however, it is a form of that tenacity that allows secular liberal ideas to exist in the first place. , a former State Department official, is associate professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University and its Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, and the author of Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution (Yale University Press, 2014).