Via Yglesias, Jonathan Chait wonders whether certain Jewish stereotypes are redounding to the benefit of the senator from Connecticut.
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Does Europe have a Muslim problem?
In the New York Review of Books, Malise Ruthven reads Christopher Caldwell's Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam,…
Swiss democracy
With a Muslim constituency estimated to be between four and six percent of its total population, Switzerland is hardly in…
“Where God was at”
Samuel G. Freedman, in the New York Times, reports on the increasingly prevalent commitment of young evangelicals to social justice…
After secularization: graduate student fellowship
The Social Science Research Council's Dissertation Proposal Development Workshop (DPDF), which gives graduate students in the humanities and social sciences…
Eschatology and foreign policy
Despite my conviction that it is best, in general, to avoid posting Palin-related news items, I want to highlight this…
Education and equality in the Middle East
At altmuslim, Raouf Ebeid asks why, "when we see more progressive attitudes about women emerging in the presumably more conservative…
Tonight: Harvey Cox and E.J. Dionne on faith and progressive politics
Harvey Cox and E.J. Dionne, two luminaries of American progressive Christianity, will be discussing Cox's The Future of Faith tonight…
Cornel West: “What to Die for”
At Big Think, an interview with Cornel West on renewing a sense of value over above the merely chrematistic.
Video: Talal Asad and Abdullahi An-Na’im in coversation
Watch video clips from "Islam, Human Rights, and the Secular," hosted by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World…