...term. In her view, the term “Muslim country” is “sociologically sloppy, historically misguided, and politically dangerous,” because it fails to challenge the Islamophobic logic that implicitly licenses the state to...
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Polarization and world-building
...of Putin’s New Russia. There are, of course, a wide variety of world-building projects, but each of them, positively or negatively, encompasses design and ideology. Reactive world-building, one that is...
Coverage of a Muslim Miss USA
by Ruth BraunsteinAt the Scoop, Courtney Bender explores the media’s reporting of the Miss USA pageant and finds that “reading the coverage of Rima Fakih is a bit like going down the...
The Future of Illusion: Political Theology and Early Modern Texts
by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins...political theology in early modern studies, but her interest in political theology is diametrically opposed to the post-secular attempt to rehabilitate it. She, in fact, calls out Charles Taylor, Giorgio...
Thinking and doing
by Ruth Marshall...have those moments of panic and dread, where we fully envision the real impact of it, when we use our imaginations a little bit, apply our knowledge, remember all those...
A conversation with Yuri Slezkine
...and your relationship to different narrative genres, especially the novel. While some anthropologists write reflexively, historians generally like to appear invisible. But you, it seems to us, very often take...
“Horribly predictable Islamophobia”
by Nicole Greenfield...point here is not to defend the soldier or his alleged actions—the evidence at hand suggests that he was, at the least, a deeply troubled man whose statements and actions...
Another story than the other story
by Nancy Levene...to Yirmiyahu Yovel, three propositions of immanence: “(1) immanence is the only and overall horizon of being; (2) it is equally the only source of value and normativeness and (3)...
Enchanted complicity
...sense of their place within the worldwide body of Christ. And as a consequence, this deeply researched and admirably measured tour of American evangelicalism’s international affairs goes a long way...
A gay veteran’s lament
by Jake Alter...American values: I joined the United States Army as a public affairs specialist in 2003, fully aware of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and the repercussions a gay soldier could possibly...