...guarantees is that of another kind of nested modality, merely an iterated possibility—“it is possible that it is possible that such an outcome will emerge.” If that is the best...
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Los Angeles Review of Books reviews Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
by Wei Zhu...when to take a break.” ‘O’ impels you to become the master of your own life, your best life, but in the ‘O’ way. Guidance toward self-love is coupled with...
Beyond critique
Religion in European migration studies
by Julia Mourão Permoser...context, the differences between Muslims and non-Muslims practically disappear. This is an excellent example of how disentangling categories can contribute to increasing our knowledge about religion. Sometimes the best research...
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Should God be in the inaugural details?
by Ruth Braunstein...White House,” said Obama’s inauguration marks a “transitional moment” in which people are paying attention and wary of how Democrats will apply their newfound faith. Some atheists believe the best...
Justice: Rights and Wrongs
Must secular rights fail?
by Thaddeus J. Kozinski...the best explanation for Wolterstorff’s apparently “dialectically hostile” discourse in Justice: Rights and Wrongs is that we are dealing ultimately with a theological issue here, one with clear and arguable...
A cognitive revolution?
Mind sciences and religious change in America
by Christopher White...of Christianity and the best ways to foster Christian conversion. Why have things turned out this way? Why has the rise of mind/brain science not led to the expected decline...
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Obama has shrunk his religion gap
by Nathan Schneider...and 57 percent. Thus the gap between the two groups has narrowed from 20 points to 12 points. Since Obama has improved his numbers markedly with both groups, the best...
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What to read on religion and foreign policy
by Nicole GreenfieldChris Seiple, president of the Institute for Global Engagement, offers an annotated book list of some of the best recent scholarship on the relationship between religion and American foreign policy....
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Political imaginations
by Nathan Schneider...human society is always best conceived as a closed system obeying fixed rules. And, in essays on Don Quixote, museums, Celan’s poetry, Heidegger’s brother Fritz, Richard Rorty, and bourgeois philosophy,...