U.S. Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., look on as Britain’s King Charles III addresses members of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington April 28, 2026. He became the first British monarch to address the Congress since his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in 1991. Photo: OSV News photo/Elizabeth Frantz, Reuters

After Reason, What Remains? The Death of Jürgen Habermas and His Unfinished Dialogue with Faith

What endures most is perhaps not a system, but a question—one that Habermas himself left unresolved. Can modern societies, built on pluralism and procedural reason, sustain the moral depth required for their own survival? Or do they depend, in ways they cannot fully acknowledge, on traditions—religious among them—that precede and exceed rational justification?