In my last post, I made the claim that I wasn’t an atheist. That’s a complicated claim. Atheism, despite being…
After atheism (Part II)
atheism
Catholicism, conservatism, and antihumanist politics
Geroulanos’s central thesis is compelling but simple: French antihumanism, in its theoretical mode, was based on a radicalized “negative anthropology,”…
Should one pray for an atheist?
The health of Christopher Hitchens, an outspoken atheist and critic of religion, has become a major news story. Hitchens is…
Atheism and antihumanism as intellectual-historical objects
I begin this post by posing straightaway the questions that will guide my argument. In what way can atheism and…
The quiet (ir)religion of the polite and apathetic
For many Minnesotans, religion is a private matter that shouldn’t be talked about---not even among friends. For others, it hardly…
Kagan opposed by secularists
In the past weeks, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has attracted the ire of countless, largely conservative, political blocs. Yet,…
The poverty of atheism
Famously posing a peculiar problem of translation, names are a necessary feature of our academic craft. We like to call…
The making of a student of religion
Last week I wrote about the conversations I get into when I tell people what I do. Answering that I…
Man dies again!
"Man dies again.” Or so might one entitle a tabloid version of Stefanos Geroulanos’s excellent work on the history of…
When the personal keeps on being political
Susan Jacoby's recent post is one of the best statements I've seen in opposition to the "mamma grizzly" feminism of…