As a book about the lives of “Arab” fighters in Bosnia this is a fascinating study. Its problems arise from Li’s anachronistic claim to speak about the globalization of jihad and the…
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Pandemic, religion, and public life
The political theology of corona, the virus with a crown
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A new sovereign—a virus with a crown—has revealed two contrasting realms of the sacred during its own state of emergency.
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The Universal Enemy
Social drama, universalisms’ political violence, and transnational law
June 10, 2020
In a perhaps somewhat contrapuntal response to the provocation to see the broader world differently than we may otherwise, as I read Li, I found myself reaching more and more (possibly yearning…
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President Trump visits St. John’s Church
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The important story here is not about the president’s religion. Indeed, talk of the church is in many ways a distraction. While there are real reasons to be concerned about the abuse…
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Pandemic, religion, and public life
Pandemics in the post-grid imaginary
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A post-grid imaginary is inadequate for dealing with a pandemic. Ultimately Covid-19 tests our fragile, fragmented infrastructures—whether in Lebanon or the United States or elsewhere—and the differentiated access they provide to lifesaving…
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The Universal Enemy
Solid ground (“Idioms of the left”)
June 3, 2020
It has been fascinating to read Darryl Li’s The Universal Enemy at a time when national boundaries—not to mention political leadership, scientific expertise, and whatever remains of public health—appear to be undone,…
June 3, 2020
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