Over the past few days, Barack Obama's "More Perfect Union" speech has been accessed millions of times on YouTube and…
Class, nation and covenant
language
Historical notes on the idea of secular criticism
In an essay entitled “Secular Criticism,” the noted literary critic Edward Said wrote that “Criticism...is always situated, it is skeptical,…
What inspires us & what holds us together
Having escaped for a few seconds from the Commission, I had a chance to read many of the very interesting…
Problems around the secular
One great problem is that the term “secular” is a western term, and corresponds to a very old distinction within…