This short piece attempts to come at the current debate on law and religious freedom from two unusual angles. I…
On the freedom of the concepts of religion and belief
reality/truth
Gandhian fraternity
In expounding his misgiving about the humanism I proposed, Uday Mehta seeks---I think with some strain---to find an incompatibility between…
A different notion of fraternity
In his interesting and engaging essay, Uday Mehta addresses, with some genuine feeling of qualm, a large, concluding theme in…
Truth and fraternity?
Akeel Bilgrami’s essay is important and ambitious. Its importance lies in part in making clear what secularism is and should…
Rethinking secularism and religion in the global age
Last September, I sat down at UC-Berkeley with the eminent sociologist of religion, Robert Bellah, for a discussion about religious…
A speck, a fleck, and—voila!—a governor
Clifford Geertz said it first (riffing on Ryle): the difference between twitches and winks could only be accomplished by "sorting…
The butterfly’s unconscious
Youth Without Youth takes us through a strange loop that demands us both cognitively and visually to ask similar questions…