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The future of Egyptian democracy
Is democracy the question?
by Sarah Eltantawi...place that ascending to state power is the best way to actualize “bread, freedom, and social justice.” A certain logic, momentum, and political dance commenced in which the military and...
Is this all there is
The Angel Bruno bends close to the earth and asks…
by Robert Orsi
...your coming into being from nothing until today”—the angel looks around him—“this is the best you have been able to do?” The Angel Bruno’s gaze wanders over Moscow, Washington, DC,...
Justice: Rights and Wrongs
We are all Christians now
by Jonathan Sheehan...argument. Clearly the relationship between theology and philosophy—strained at best since Spinoza’s day—still needs to be worked out, and Wolterstorff’s book might be more widely understood as an effort to...
Religion and digital culture
Religion for commoners
by Nathan Schneider...Bollier’s recent book, Think Like a Commoner, is the best introduction to the commons available today. The commons is an economy for stewardship. It inclines less toward maximizing profits than...
Notes from the field
Of saints, separatism, and secularization (part 1)
by Sarah Shortall...perhaps best captured by Le Devoir’s headline announcing Brother André’s canonization: “Brother André: symbol of pride or of a backwards, passive Québec?” The incredible transformation of the province’s ethnic makeup...
here & there
New tensions in Egypt
by Charles Gelman...the nonideological revolution are no longer the driving political force — at least not at the moment. As the best organized and most extensive opposition movement in Egypt, the Muslim...
Sex abuse in the Catholic Church
Sister Martin Ignatius explains not very much at all for you
by Martin Kavka...giving the finger, “something Janssen encouraged me to do,” to the photographer.) Indeed, one could take the Foucauldian analysis further and analyze abusers’ language and adult survivors’ language about abusers...