Steeped in the Reformation’s emphasis on the individual as an autonomous agent, the Founders displaced God in favor of a…
Have it your way: Puerto Rico and the myth of American freedom
capitalism
Memento mori
The question isn’t only whether capitalism thoroughly saturates death—I stand by my view, held also by James, that it doesn’t,…
Money—flat, broad, and deep
Is money transcendent or immanent?
Theologies of American exceptionalism: Moreton and Paarlberg
"For its proponents, Americans and perhaps others, Christian free enterprise is not a religion but a natural way of being,…
Democracy as a work in progress rather than a work of progress
Let me begin by thanking the contributors to this book forum for their respective reviews. I am enormously grateful for…
Secular supercessionism and alternative modernity
Recent years have seen the resurgence of “metahistories” that seek to provide a single complex narrative of seemingly disparate events…
The anatomy of a public square movement
Sociologist (and longtime TIF contributor) Nilüfer Göle assesses the emerging opposition movement in Turkey at Today's Zaman.
An excursion through the partitions of Taksim Square
Taksim Meydanı. Partition Square. Although it has taken on potent new resonances in recent days, the name of Istanbul’s throbbing central…
Imagining radical refusal
In Reviews in Cultural Theory, Erin Wunker reviews Exit Capitalism: Literary Culture, Theory, and Postsecular Modernity by Simon During.
Frequencies 61/100 – 70/100
Yesterday marked the seventieth entry in Frequencies, a co-production of The Immanent Frame and Killing the Buddha.