Reports that NATO personnel had burned copies of the Qur'an first appeared in the New York Times on Tuesday, February…
Responses to Qur’an burning in Afghanistan
American politics
Do candidates need the Catholic vote anymore?
Ed Kilgore argues that American Catholics no longer represent a voting constituency that is significantly different from non-Catholics.
Secularism and The Third Jihad
At The Revealer, Jeremy F. Walton offers insight on the recent controversy surrounding the NYPD's use of The Third Jihad…
Religious roots of the secular
At the Harvard University Press Blog, historian Brad S. Gregory discusses his latest book, The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious…
An uncomfortable spotlight
The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life has released a comprehensive survey of more than 1,000 Mormons…
Mormon ad campaign and the 2012 election
In the hit Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, Elder Price sings about how he believes that "ancient Jews built…
American exceptionalism redux
I find Kahn's book as a whole less coherent than some others have. One issue I want to raise is…
Don’t tread on me
Paul Kahn, in his rereading of Carl Schmitt by way of the American context, seeks to “depersonalize the sovereign.” As…
Taking theology seriously
What we need is a bird’s eye view, and that requires taking theology seriously, and considering a longer view of…
Not for the squeamish
Paul Kahn has written a remarkable meditation on Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology. A truly adequate response would undoubtedly require a…