The Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London is hosting a one-day conference today…
Secularism and race
citizenship
Joan Wallach Scott on notions of French citizenship
At Big Think, Joan Wallach Scott discusses French citizenship and laïcité in light of the current controversy over the burqa.
The American Jew and Israeli politics
Sara Reef, Project Manager at Intersections International, writes at The Huffington Post on the American Jew's "right" to speak on the…
Muslims in European public spheres and the limits of liberal theories of citizenship
Recent events in Europe, from the cartoon crisis in Denmark to the controversy over the construction of minarets in Switzerland,…
Judith Butler and Cornel West in conversation
In a recent symposium held by the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, the Social Science Research Council and the…
Multi-religious denominationalism and American identity
Charles Taylor has argued that those of us living in North America and Europe are witnessing a shift in our…
Still the two Americas
As Barack Obama stood on the stage at Grant Park in Chicago on election night, my euphoria yielded to a…
Humanists as cultural agents
Without art, Victor Shklovsky writes in "Art as Technique," "life is reckoned as nothing. Habitualization devours works, clothes, furniture, one's…
Do good philosophers make good citizens?
Perhaps one might argue that Justice: Rights and Wrongs is not simply a contribution to a conversation among philosophers. It…
“Trust me”
On Sunday evening at Messiah College, the two contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination agreed to talk in a “deeply…