How does the relationship between religion and politics relate to the changing political constellations we are now seeing, especially given…
The new ecumenism
Cold War
The Weimar Century
The international turn in intellectual history, which David Armitage announced in 2014, has evolved into a surge of publications on…
The geopolitical imperative?
Ritualistic evocations of "America" . . . and the deep-seated sense that somehow the United States is sacrosanct space—war, by…
A Cold War choir
On Sunday, The New York Times featured an article on the significance of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s "Operation Telstar" performance…
A brief note on teleology
I think Jonathan Sheehan points to something quite useful in his last post: the need for a discourse that does…
Confessions of a casual Löwithian
What is secularization? This question raises the issue of what exactly religion and “the secular” are---terms that, as our discussions…
The best of all possible worlds
In a recent conversation regarding the effects of the Cold War, in particular the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the…