...decades writing about. Even if it may seem that Sri Lanka slots into place as the latest local instantiation of a global populist desire for authoritarianism, when I write about...
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Deathless questions and other interviews ![]()
by Nathan Schneider
The suspicious revolution: An interview with Talal Asad
...questions about the state of the economy. Since the economy suffers from the political instability in the country, they say, we shouldn’t have more demonstrations or strikes. But one of...
A Secular Age ![]()
by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel
Akbar Ganji in conversation with Charles Taylor
...can’t do good historical sociology. I mean, for instance, if you want to talk about religion, the development of religion, and let me say in parenthesis that I’m just claiming...
Deathless questions and other interviews ![]()
by Nathan Schneider
Implicated and enraged: An interview with Judith Butler
...in every instance wrong and must be opposed, and the colonial subjugation of the Palestinian people, which is in every instance wrong and must be opposed. NS: But what strikes...
Is this all there is ![]()
by Atalia Omer
Praying with one’s legs again
...on the Shabbat before Ninth of Av to mark the destruction of Jerusalem), for instance, is as relevant to her now as it was then. Because Shabbat Hazon revolves around...
Modernity's resonances: New inquiries into the secular 
by Graham Jones
Secularism’s enchantments and disenchantments: A reply to Goto-Jones and Zhan
by Graham Jones
...curricula, enacted in magical performance, or instantiated in anthropological analysis—to function as either liberatory or oppressive. Goto-Jones raises a challenging critique of Magic’s Reason in this regard. Expressing concern “about...
Minding the Modern ![]()
by Elizabeth Pritchard
Minding the other modernities
...in accord with or detrimental to moral judgment and moral behavior. For instance, does Thomas Hobbes’s denial of a qualitative divide between humans and other animals really “cause us to...