relief carvings of soldiers and the repeating Russian and German words СЛАВА and RUHM—“glory.” The invading Soviets had a complicated political task. They needed to simultaneously occupy Berlin and unite...
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Bolshevism as secular religion? A discussion of The House of Government
from a specifically Russian religious context. If he had compared Bolshevism to other religious faiths indigenous to the Russian empire, whether Catholic, Eastern Orthodox Christian, or Jewish, he might have...
Paul Kahn’s roots
...act of collective origin). We should not be surprised, says Schmitt, that undemocratic phenomena erupt in the midst of democratic structures, for such eruptions tell us something ineradicable about the...
Why not just abolish the religion clauses?
...either religious or “moral” grounds. In the Little Sisters decision, the Court, without directly ruling on the statutory issue, rejected a procedural challenge to the Trump rule. The decision to...
Poppies and Prophets
least since the Rushdie Affair—and quite artificial in its construction.) It seems that, at least if they were arguing before Judge Riddle, they would have no problem at all articulating...
Islamic and Jewish Legal Reasoning: An introduction
...the law of war. I situate the premodern fiqh rules governing non-Muslims (the so-called dhimmi rules) in an imperial context that informed the logic and rationale of those rules, but...
The right to truth: An interview with Eduardo Gonzalez
Eduardo Gonzalez is a sociologist and the director of the Truth-Seeking Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice. He advises truth commissions, which are becoming an increasingly common phenomenon...
Two books, oddly yoked together
...legitimate successor to the previous King lately deceased? True, there were demands on the political system made by revealed religion. The King should defend the true faith for example; this...
Protection without punishment: Turning to Buddhist gods during Covid-19
For political leaders today, a pandemic means never having to say you’re sorry. This has not always been the case. Once upon a time, in a different era, rulers publicly...
A response to critics
...how difficult it is, even for a court, to adhere to the legal rule of no torture, as if stating the rule were the end of the matter. I described...