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    -ESSAY: The Intellectual Origins of the Establishment Clause (Noah Feldman, 77 NYU L. Rev. 2, 2002)
    -ESSAY: A Church-State Solution (Noah Feldman, July 3, 2005, The New York Times)

In our own era, two camps dominate the church-state debate in American life, corresponding to what are now the two most prominent approaches to the proper relation of religion and government. One school of thought contends that the right answers to questions of government policy must come from the wisdom of religious tradition. You might call those who insist on the direct relevance of religious values to political life 'values evangelicals.' Not every values evangelical is, technically speaking, an evangelical or a born-again Christian, although many are. Values evangelicals include Jews, Catholics, Muslims and even people who do not focus on a particular religious tradition but care primarily about identifying traditional moral values that can in theory be shared by everyone.

What all values evangelicals have in common is the goal of evangelizing for values: promoting a strong set of ideas about the best way to live your life and urging the government to adopt those values and encourage them wherever possible. To them, the best way to hold the United States together as a nation, not just a country, is for us to know what values we really hold and to stand up for them. As Ralph Reed recently told an audience at Harvard, 'While we are sometimes divided on issues, there remains a broad national consensus on core values and principles.'
,br> On the other side of the debate are those who see religion as a matter of personal belief and choice largely irrelevant to government and who are concerned that values derived from religion will divide us, not unite us. You might call those who hold this view 'legal secularists,' not because they are necessarily strongly secular in their personal worldviews -- though many are -- but because they argue that government should be secular and that the laws should make it so. To the legal secularists, full citizenship means fully sharing in the legal and political commitments of the nation. If the nation defines itself in terms of values drawn from religion, they worry, then it will inevitably tend to adopt the religious values of the majority, excluding religious minorities and nonreligious people from full citizenship.

    -EXCERPT: First Chapter of What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building by Noah Feldman
    -ESSAY: Foundering? (NOAH FELDMAN, 7/31/05, NY Times Magazine)
    -ESSAY: Agreeing to Disagree in Iraq (NOAH FELDMAN, August 30, 2005, NY Times)
    -ESSAY: Islamist Democracies: The West’s Worst Nightmare? (Noah Feldman, November 23, 2003, The Globalist)
    -ESSAY: The Best Hope: A response to “Islam and the Challenge of Democracy” (Noah Feldman, Boston Review)
    -ESSAY: Ugly Americans: THE LAWS OF A WAR AGAINST EVIL (Noah Feldman, 05.25.05, New Republic)
    -LECTURE: Brookings Briefing: Iraq After the Elections (Noah Feldman, 2/10/05)
    -INTERVIEW:"Islamic Democracy" in Iraq: an interview with Noah Feldman (Truth, War & Consequences, PBS Frontline)
    -INTERVIEW: What We Owe Iraq: An Interview with Noah Feldman (Bradford Plumer, January 16, 2005, Mother Jones)
    -INTERVIEW: Iraqi Constitution - Noah Feldman (Geraldine Doogue, 22 February 2004, Sunday Profile: Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
    -INTERVIEW: CONSTITUTIONALISM IN THE MUSLIM WORLD: A Conversation With Noah Feldman (State Department)
    -INTERVIEW: The Iraqi Constitution from an Economic Perspective: Interview with Noah Feldman (CIPE, August 1, 2005)
    -AUDIO INTERVIEW: Next Steps for Iraq's Constitution Authors (Madeleine Brand, August 23, 2005, Day to Day)
    -AUDIO INTERVIEW: Negotiating Iraq's Transition (Liane Hansen, April 25, 2004, Weekend Edition)
    -AUDIO INTERVIEW: Noah Feldman (The Leonard Lopate Show, April 07, 2003)
    -PROFILE: To Exist in the Heavens: Noah Feldman and the Culture War (Gabrielle Birkner, October 2005, Moment)
    -PROFILE: Have a Nice Country: Noah Feldman helped write the Iraqi constitution. Now he gets to watch it sink or swim (Kareem Fahim, June 29th, 2004, Village Voice)
    -REVIEW: of Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem - And What We Should Do About It By Noah Feldman (Franklin Foer, NY Times Book Review)
    -REVIEW: of Divided by God (Carol des Lauriers Cieri, CS Monitor)
    -REVIEW: of Divided by God (Ami Eden, The Forward)
    -REVIEW: of Divided by God (Alan Wolfe, Slate)
    -REVIEW: of Divided by God (STEVEN I. WEISS, Opinion Journal)
    -REVIEW: of Divided by God (Thomas C. Berg, Books & Culture)
    -REVIEW: of Divided by God (Michelle Goldberg, Salon)
    -REVIEW: of Divided by God (The Economist)
    -REVIEW: of Divided by God (Bette Novit Evans, Journal of Religion & Society)
    -REVIEW: of Divided by God (BEZALEL STERN, Jerusalem Post)
    -REVIEW: of Divided by God (L. B. Madison, Online Journal)
    -REVIEW: of What We Owe Iraq by Noah Feldman (Robert Kagan, NY Times Book Review)
    -REVIEW: of What We Owe Iraq (L. Carl Brown, Foreign Affairs)
    -REVIEW: of What We Owe Iraq (Steven Vincent, American Enterprise)
    -REVIEW: of After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy by Noah Feldman (JONATHAN D. TEPPERMAN, NY Times Book Review)
    -REVIEW: of After Jihad (Steven Martinovich, CS Monitor)
    -REVIEW: of After Jihad (Steven Martinovich, Enter Stage Right)
    -REVIEW: of After Jihad (Lizzie Skurnick, Baltimore City Paper)
    -REVIEW: of After Jihad (W. J. Rayment, Conservative Monitor)
    -REVIEW: of After Jihad (Bernard K. Freamon, H-Law)
    -REVIEW: of After Jihad (Michael Alexander, Forward)
    -REVIEW: of After Jihad (Robert B. Killebrew, Parameters)