...in a rational free market. The sole function of the liberal state is to ensure the best possible conditions for profitable competition. Neoliberal policy and practice are rooted in the...
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A Secular Age
A case of heteronomous thinking
by Stathis Gourgouris...to praise it. The best and most profound of what it has to offer is precisely that the domains of thought and history it privileges be interrogated in order to...
Rethinking secularism
Is there a crisis of secularism in Western Europe?
by Tariq Modood...stories in the media that are best understood as a specific form of cultural racism that has come to be called Islamophobia and is largely unrelated to questions of secularism....
The headscarf controversy
Human rights in the era of the AKP
by Howard Eissenstat...bitterness of Turkey’s struggle with Kurdish separatism, to the remarkable trust that Turkish culture continues to bestow on Devlet Baba, the “Father State.” Under the ruling Justice and Development Party...
Sharia Compliant 
by
Omar Farahat
Law, authority, and tradition
by
Omar Farahat
Rumee Ahmed’s Sharia Compliant: A User’s Guide to Hacking Islamic Law is a unique book in that it tackles some of the most difficult questions in the clearest and most...
here & there
Skyping secularism: Religion and democracy
by Thomas Alberts...that would liberalize RH law. But many of the advocates of the RH bill aren’t generally anti-clerical; rather, they are advancing distinct religious arguments. The best chance for a compromise...
off the cuff
Summer reading: Part II
by Omri Elisha, David Kyuman Kim, Tomoko Masuzawa, Patrick Lee Miller, John Lardas Modern and John Schmalzbauer...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...
Deathless questions and other interviews
The right to truth: An interview with Eduardo Gonzalez
by Nathan Schneider...be politically manipulated by local powers. At the same time, I fear that establishing complex, extremely detailed standards and “best practices” may thwart creativity. Truth commissions are still novel, flexible...
Religion and the 2008 election
A new kind of evangelical
by D. Michael Lindsay...And he takes a similar approach to his faith. When I asked him whether the Christian life was the best way of life, he answered “Well it is for me,”...