Ritualistic evocations of "America" . . . and the deep-seated sense that somehow the United States is sacrosanct space—war, by…
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Mirror, mirror on the wall
June 29, 2011
After the manner of psychoanalysis, political theology reflects the larger, darker, contours that liberalism—the discourse of the modern nation-state—fails to…
Pluralizing political theology
June 27, 2011
My claim and concern is not only that Kahn is captured by Schmitt’s particular view of political theology as a…
Political theology and liberalism
June 22, 2011
When modern revolutionaries took up the task of translating the felt meaning of political revolution into a constitutional order of…
“The Lady Twilight”
June 30, 2010
Over at Killing the Buddha, William Dalrymple is excerpting his new book, Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in…
Sovereignty and sacrifice in American politics
April 16, 2010
In The Utopian, Yale Law professor Paul W. Kahn argues that the discourse and imaginary of secular political theory fail…