Update 8.23.07: Click here for my first response to Mark Lilla’s essay “The Politics of God” (New York Times Magazine 8.19.07).
Since we’re discussing his New Republic article, “The End of Politics” (6.23.03; sub req’d) — incentive to subscribe, don’t you think? — I thought people might be interested in two other pieces, which I had collected in my long-neglected War Reading department: “The new age of tyranny” (New York Review of Books 10.24.02), and “Why are deep thinkers shallow about tyranny?” (interview by Eric Alterman, New York Times 11.10.02).
[Obsolete links removed 4.6.06. —Philo]