The Limits of Universalism: An Exchange

As an American Jew and close friend and colleague of Robert George, it is easy for me to agree with everything Glenn Loury has said in his compelling article “Tucker and the Right.” As a Jew, I agree with Loury’s concern that “the nationalist right” (Tucker Carlson being, not its best, but its best-known spokesman) has grown increasingly hostile to Israel, a hostility “that veers into old patterns of anti-Semitism.” My relationship with George is rooted in (but not confined to) our mutual commitment to natural law (which Aristotle might say is the highest form of friendship).