Barbara Herrnstein Smith is a distinguished literary scholar at both Brown and Duke, who, since her undergraduate days, has had…
Religion, science, and the humanities: An interview with Barbara Herrnstein Smith
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Secularism, secularization, and why the difference matters
Several decades ago, well before there had been any concerted effort among historians and sociologists of religion to trash the…
Hegel in the heartland
In The New York Times, J.M. Bernstein holds forth on the metaphysical dimensions of the sustained paroxysm known as the…
God, science and philanthropy
Nathan Schneider profiles John Templeton and the Foundation he built, in The Nation.
Secularism, atheism, antihumanism
In a 1956 text on ethics and literature, Emmanuel Levinas offered the following diagnosis of the philosophical trends of his…
Does religion unite or divide?
At Reset DOC, Marco Cesario provides an overview of a recent roundtable discussion held at the Bilgi University in Istanbul,…
The soul of academia
The concept of the soul has an important place in the conceptual apparatuses of towering figures of modern social thought…
Feminism, secularism, and marriage
In the latest issue of Studies in Social Justice, an open-access e-journal, Ada S. Jaarsma addresses the "post-secular turn" in feminism with…
It’s all about reconciliation: A conversation with Tariq Ramadan
I had the opportunity to sit for a conversation with the Swiss philosopher Tariq Ramadan at the end of the…
Radical Orthodoxy’s new home?
This past November, a new think tank called ResPublica was launched in London, in the opulent surrounds of the Royal…