Christian Larson argues in the New Republic that the Chinese government's attitude toward its Uighur minority could incite the precise radicalism it fears.

In the Nation, Babak Sarfaraz speculates about Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's potential successor, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi.

Commentators are defining the boundaries, and noting the overlaps, in this week's Comment is Free belief question at the Guardian.

At the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg interviews Michael Oren, the new Israeli Ambassador to the United States.

At The Daily Dish, Patrick Appel reviews a week-long debate over atheism and religion, and responds to the suggestion that "there really isn’t anything at all interesting to say anymore about atheism vs. religion, and hasn’t been since at least the 1950s, if not the 1850s." Find his round-up of the week's debate here.

Jeff Strickler writes about the tricky ethics of pastors using sermons they downloaded from the internet.

At Time, Ishaan Tharoor asks if Sufism can be used to defuse terrorism and radicalism.

Militant atheist Sam Harris questions President Obama's choice of Francis Collins as the director of the National Institutes of Health.

At the Huffington Post, Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy writes about Walter Cronkite and his religion, as well as his involvement with the Interfaith Alliance.

In the New York Review of Books, Roger Cohen writes in startling detail about the aftermath of Iran's elections.