French students protest burka ban by hiding face, showing legs.
“Niqabitches” take on Paris
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The UK’s first “anti-terror” summer camp
Dr. Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri has founded the United Kingdom's first anti-terrorism camp, reports Dominic Casciani for the BBC.
How many “nones” make a secular nation?
What is the relationship between rates of church attendance and national identity? When more than 50 percent of a country's…
“Defending one’s character is not an intellectual exercise”
At openDemocracy, Jonathan Gharraie and Farid Boussaid interview Ian Buruma on his intellectual beginnings, his most recent book, Taming the Gods,…
Catholicism, conservatism, and antihumanist politics
Geroulanos’s central thesis is compelling but simple: French antihumanism, in its theoretical mode, was based on a radicalized “negative anthropology,”…
Atheism and antihumanism as intellectual-historical objects
I begin this post by posing straightaway the questions that will guide my argument. In what way can atheism and…
Veiled threats?
At the New York Times philosophy forum, The Stone, Martha Nussbaum asks how philosophical and legal scholarship can help us…
“Rethinking secularism,” but in German
The latest issue of Transit, the Austrian journal of European affairs, takes as its theme and thrust "Säkularismus neu denken"…
Discussing mosques, minarets, and crosses
Ruthie, Grace and David here, reporting live from the IWM International Summer School in Philosophy and Politics in Cortona, Italy.…
The poverty of atheism
Famously posing a peculiar problem of translation, names are a necessary feature of our academic craft. We like to call…