The West has outsourced responsibility. It’s reduced ethics to economics and politics. Which means we are dependent on the market and the state. And one day our descendants will look back and ask, How did the West lose what once made it great?

Author Archives: Jonathan Sacks
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (1948-2020) was a British Orthodox rabbi, philosopher and theologian. He served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013. After stepping down, in addition to his international travelling and speaking engagements and prolific writing, Sacks was a professor of Jewish thought at New York University and Yeshiva University. He was also Professor of Law, Ethics, and the Bible at King's College London. He won the Templeton Prize in 2016.