I have been in Egypt since February 6, 2011, where I have been witnessing events, talking to friends, activists and…
America in the Egyptian revolution
politics
Oprah, the Rorschach test
Focusing on Oprah as an icon/inkblot, we can use our reactions to her as a Rorschach test: What do we…
Implicated and enraged: An interview with Judith Butler
Judith Butler, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is among the leading social theorists alive today. Her most…
Adrift on common dreams
What a strange, provocative experience it has been to dwell with Kathryn Lofton’s Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon during…
Have the jihadis lost the moral high ground to the rebels?
It has been a season of earthquakes, and the political ones in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, and elsewhere in the Middle…
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…
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,…
Egypt’s revolution and the new feminism
The youth-driven Revolution of 2011, with its call for freedom and justice, is inscribing a new feminism, with a fresh…
When democracy alone is not enough
At Patheos, philosopher Roger Gottlieb discusses why "spirituality" is a necessary supplement to democracy.
Secular humanism, the Christian Right, and progressive education
Over at U.S. Intellectual History, Andrew Hartman wants to know why, starting the 1970s, the Christian Right came to see…