When the City University of New York's Graduate Center decided to convene a session of its Great Issues Forum around…
The varieties of unbelief and the ghost of Richard Dawkins
Rethinking secularism
Rethinking secularism: The power of religion in the public sphere
On October 22, 2009, over 1000 people gathered in the vast and venerable Great Hall at New York City's Cooper…
Open thread: The power of religion in the public sphere
Four of the world’s leading public intellectuals came together yesterday in the historic Great Hall at Cooper Union to discuss…
Always put one in the brain
Let me assure you. Ongoing neurological studies will not dramatically change religious belief or practice. As Robert Bellah notes in…
Is critique secular?
One of the most cherished definitions of critique is the incessant subjection of all norms to unyielding critique. Or is…
New freedoms in Turkey — for whom?
Turkey’s ban of the headscarf on university campuses -- rather than the headscarf itself -- has become a serious impediment…
Gender equality and Islamic headscarves
In Turkey there is now a great deal of controversy about proposed revisions to the constitution that would include lifting…
De-transcendentalizing the secular
How one answers the question “Is critique secular?” determines substantially how one engages with secularism, how one comes to defend…
Anti-secularism
More than most other great systematic thinkers of our time, Jürgen Habermas has for decades consistently expressed his views on…