In Foreign Policy, Elizabeth McAlister---a member of the SSRC Working Group on Spirituality, Political Engagement, and Public Life---writes on recent…
Translating music into politics in Haiti
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Newt Gingrich’s secular, Islamic America
Matt Yglesias parses Newt Gingrich's (only) ostensibly contradictory statement, that "if we do not decisively win the struggle over the…
New tensions in Egypt
Michael Slackman has a fairly extensive article in The New York Times on the Muslim Brotherhood's apparent consolidation of power…
All surface, no substance?
Garry Wills does not like Dreyfus and Kelly's All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a…
Our Values
Our Values is a new blog published by the Michigan Institute for Social Research and featuring the writing of sociologist…
“Killing in the Name of. . .”
Ayça Çubukçu on state sovereignty and the political theology of humanitarian intervention with regard to the ongoing crisis in Libya,…
The future of Haaretz (and of Israel)
David Remnick, in The New Yorker, profiles Amos Schocken, the prickly but principled (albeit ideologically nonconformist) publisher of Haaretz, which,…
A review of Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age
Abraham Rubin reviews Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age at the blog of the Center for Jewish Law and…
A review of Paul Cliteur’s The Secular Outlook
J. Caleb Clanton reviews Paul Cliteur's The Secular Outlook, which aims "to show how religious believers and unbelievers can live…
When democracy alone is not enough
At Patheos, philosopher Roger Gottlieb discusses why "spirituality" is a necessary supplement to democracy.