In this conversation, Chad Seales and Timothy Rainey address what role corporations should assume in achieving the public good. While…
ethics
Scales of justice for environmental ethics: A reply to Hennessy and Hoesterey
Muslim Environmentalisms claims that the environment is an ethical idea. It is about environmental ethics; it is not a book…
Provincializing the environmental humanities: An Islamic view
Every now and then a book comes along, at times from an oblique vantage point or marginalized point of reference,…
Dangerous doubles and magical ethics
As the superstar-magician walks through an urban shanty in the middle of his television special Magic Man (1998), David Blaine’s…
Who deserves to be hated?
Since 2010, I have been studying the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), a religious group that is both a source and…
A liturgy of the soul
Reading and responding to Knot of the Soul deeply signifies a longstanding dialogue with my friend and interlocutor Stefania Pandolfo.…
Translation, tradition, and the ethical turn: A reply to Bardawil and Allan
The Arabic Freud ... does not aim to augment the literature on psychoanalysis by contributing yet another reading of Freud (merely…
Ethical journeys
The question “Is this all there is” makes sense inside the immanent frame. Prior to this becoming our default common…
Conversion diptych
I. Showing the Extraordinary Work Which Has of Late Been Going On in This Land The work of conversion is…
“Faithful secularity” as the best hope for democracy
Luke Bretherton's Resurrecting Democracy: Faith, Citizenship, and the Politics of a Common Life addresses two crucial holes in contemporary understanding…