The Challenges of Political Action

Shadi Hamid: I want to push you on this though, because you've kind of given up that public funding of religious schools isn't going to happen in America in your lifetime. But is there more that you could potentially do? And are you kind of giving away the game too easily and falling back on, well, let me just help my local school when in fact, if more people like you who feel strongly about this issue actually mobilized and organized, perhaps you could make a dent in the kind of public or policy debate? "There's absolutely more that I could do," he says.