At TPMCafe, Daniel Levy reviews the Obama administration's efforts to-date in confronting Israel-Palestine conflict.
Peace slipping away once again
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“Reading Weber in Tehran”
In the Chronicle of Higher Education, Charles Kurzman discusses the demonization of social scientists and their work in post-revolutionary Iran,…
Utopia and everyday life
Religion Dispatches interviews Anna L. Peterson, author of Everyday Ethics and Social Change: The Education of Desire.
Avoiding a civil-religious war
Over at the Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan warns against taking yesterday's shooting at Fort Hood as cause for increased suspicion…
Courtney Bender on “religion talk” in the media
At the Scoop, guest blogger (and Immanent Frame contributor) Courtney Bender discusses the New York Times' perennial waffling about religion,…
The rising tide of “radical orthodoxy”
In the Guardian, Nathan Coombs reflects on the ascendancy in British politics of "red Toryism," a new configuration of conservative…
“The I in Me”
In the London Review of Books, philosopher Thomas Nagel reviews Galen Strawson's Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics.
Audio: The power of religion in the public sphere
Four of the world’s leading public intellectuals came together on Thursday, October 22 in the historic Great Hall at Cooper…
Prophecy and public reason
Over at Religion Dispatches, Anthony Petro looks back on last week's "Rethinking Secularism" forum, featuring Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles…
“Religion, Morality and Youth” on NPR
Right now on NPR, Tom Ashbrook is speaking with Christian Smith, director of the Center for the Study of Religion…