What: A lecture by historian and novelist Tariq Ali, discussing his new book, The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power, with an introduction by Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert...
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The Flight of the Intellectuals
by Jessica PolebaumIn his recently published The Flight of the Intellectuals (Melville House Publishing, 2010), Paul Berman, writer in residence at New York University, sets out, via a reading of the thought...
Out there: Perspectives on the study of Black metaphysical religion
...world toward new destinations: mystic flight, human flight, flights of fancy. Padilioni engages flight as a radical tradition of Blackness rooted in a commitment to community, comprised of histories that...
Prophetic blackness: The legendary tale of Alexander Bedward, “the flying preacher”
...which militant Baptist preacher Paul Bogle led hundreds of Black Jamaicans in a march to the courthouse in Morant Bay, the Jamaican colonial administration grew suspicious of the Revivalist communities...
What’s more? or, An answer to the question “Is this all there is?”
by Mark Cauchi...we experience and so think the latter. Image credit: Anish Kapoor, Mother as a Void, 1988. Fibreglass and pigment. 205 x 205 x 230 cm. ©Anish Kapoor, 2017. Used by...
Egypt at the crossroads
by Mbaye Lo...a local grocery store. “Soon the Jama’a (Muslim Brotherhood) will ban it.” The store owner, Mr. Ahmad, nodded. “Allah yastur al balad, [May god protect the country]—it will be like...
American carpe diem
by David Marno...that fanaticism of any sort would be held at bay. Eight and a half years later, it seems that the balance was too precarious to survive Obama’s presidency. What has...
Money—flat, broad, and deep
by Devin Singh...a prior regime of representation still open to the depth of the sign. This was an age where money was believed to possess inherent value, matching the gold of which...
The soulful, comic defiance of Heavenly Bodies
...night after our field trip, back in class, we debriefed. One of my students was an African-American father from the Bronx, a veteran who spent years on an army base...
An atheism a theologian can love
by James K. A. Smith...and Derrida a background milieu that I had previously failed to appreciate. Indeed, it’s striking how differently Geroulanos’s frame illuminates French thought into the ’60s and ’70s—like casting black light...