Jacques Berlinerblau, on The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Brainstorm blog, enumerates some of the prevalent misconceptions that inform what he calls “Pop Atheism”: 1) That the term “atheist” has a...
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Uprising in Egypt
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...
here & there
Reverence for words
by Nathan SchneiderAt First Things, Stefan McDaniel takes a stand against blogging: Someone recently encouraged me to write more, because “words aren’t lifeblood. Words are cheap.” Words are certainly held cheap, and...
Justice: Rights and Wrongs
Must secular rights fail?
by Thaddeus J. Kozinski...explain successfully enough, but also the inevitable failure of any secular theory that would attempt to inform this practical prescription. Here MacIntyre sums up what he considers the essential problem...
Resurrecting Democracy
Democracy as a work in progress rather than a work of progress
by Luke Bretherton...short, capitalism, both historically and now, produces order and prosperity for some by generating disorder and destruction for others (especially non-human others and those judged less than human by the...
Law's Religion
Law’s Religion—An introduction
by Benjamin L. Berger...ethic of this volume stand firmly against an orientation towards such legal “solutions.” Yet the book nevertheless arrives at a certain kind of prescription. It is an ethical prescription, a...
Deathless questions and other interviews
“Twin tolerations” today: An interview with Alfred Stepan
by Joseph Blankholm...of religion would inevitably decline with modernity, and a normative prescription that it should. In the contemporary world neither the prediction, nor the prescription, seemed defensible to me. What is...
Book reviews
The Virtues of Abandon
by Hannah Callaway...buy a fur hat and other elements of “Armenian dress” in order to display his rejection of modern society (he is wearing them in one of his most iconic portraits)....
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
O tedious selfhood, O aftertaste of splinters
by Tracy Fessenden...You, and Oprah, are there. Order your classroom copies now. The path on which Lofton aims to set our Oprah-rehabbed and -retrofitted discipline of religious studies is a bit harder...