Now that Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel has permitted the prosecution of German satirist Jan Boehmermann the time has come…
Satire and policing the boundary of free expression
freedom of expression
Blasphemous cartoons: The old threat of secularism and the new threat of Islam
Around Christmas time, in the heart of Europe, furor broke out over blasphemous cartoons. The newspapers and public opinion were…
Values and violence: Thoughts on Charlie Hebdo
The week after the massacre, Charlie Hebdo’s “All is forgiven" issue featured a cover depicting the prophet Muhammad in tears, holding a…
The Charlie Hebdo shootings
On Wednesday, January 7th, two masked assailants stormed the Paris headquarters of the French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo, killed 12 people, and wounded…
Pussy Riot’s punk prayer
On February 21, 2012, five members of a Russian punk collective called Pussy Riot entered the Cathedral of Christ the…
Freedom without religious freedom?
Recently on Big Questions Online (BQO), Thomas Farr puts forth and analyzes the question, "Is religious freedom necessary for other…
Taking a stance
Akeel Bilgrami’s “Secularism: It’s Content and Context” is both fascinating and wide-ranging... Whether or not one agrees with the notion…