...vision has been demolished; his best daughter has become of little substance; let her truth be her only dowry. And facing this loss, the king becomes destructive. Disappointment precipitates an...
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A Secular Age
Disenchantment and the mind-dependence of the moral
by Matthew Noah Smith...for the existence of values is that they can be accommodated by our best sciences. But our best sciences do not seem to have any room for values. Values make...
Deathless questions and other interviews
Greedy time: An interview with Patrick Lee Miller
by Nathan Schneider...world will always need the truth, hence the world will always need Heraclitus.” This is an influence historians of philosophy are only now beginning to appreciate. Heraclitus’s best days may...
off the cuff
Summer reading: Part I
by Colin Jager, Simon During, John R. Bowen, Kathryn Lofton and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan...have read these past few months. So we asked: What are the best books and essays you’ve come across this summer? What are you most looking forward to reading in...
here & there
Skyping secularism: Religion and multiple modernities
by Thomas Alberts...elites. The alternative being to simply say, “we know best,” and to impose a code that conforms to the elites’ liberal norms, and then to enforce it as best as...
Religion and the 2008 election
The makings of a pastoral presidency?
by Omri Elisha...In other ways, pastoral leadership is vastly different not only in scale but in substance. Allow me to list three qualities – a cursory and incomplete list at best –...
Christian Human Rights
Christian human rights—An introduction
by Samuel Moyn
...of man [that] Europe drew the best of its humanistic culture, and, not least, advanced the dignity of the person as the subject of inalienable rights.” Indeed, it is now...
Is this all there is
“It was no way to die”
by Liane F. Carlson
...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” Our collective appointment with the hangman has grown exponentially closer in the last ten years and in that time some of the best minds...
here & there
After Oprah
by Jessica Polebaum...your best life. Many of the ideas Oprah advocated are familiar to historians of religion, economics, and politics. The difference between Oprah and her precursors was her peculiar historical moment,...
"These things are old"
Teaching for democracy
by William Ayers...at their best, are powered by the engines of enlightenment and freedom. The promise of education is always tied up with the radical proposition that we can change our lives...