John Boy, contributing editor to The Immanent Frame and an associate editor of Frequencies, reflects on his recent visit to…
Bible, flowers, and relevance
secularism
Truth and fraternity?
Akeel Bilgrami’s essay is important and ambitious. Its importance lies in part in making clear what secularism is and should…
Tunisian modernities
Over at the University of Notre Dame's Contending Modernities blog, Michael Driessen takes lessons from the secular-Islamist negotiation happening in…
“Twin tolerations” today: An interview with Alfred Stepan
Alfred Stepan is Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University and founder and director of the Center for…
Blurring the boundaries
Four guided missiles packed with explosive material hurtled into the morning sky. Though the day was brilliant blue and cloudless,…
Multiculturalism in Europe
After the rise of multicultural policies in the 1980s and 1990s, the winds have shifted in Europe. Terrorist attacks in…
Marilynne Robinson on religion, secularism, and literature
Joe Fassler interviews writer Marilynne Robinson after the publication of her latest collection of essays.
Nahda’s return to history
The Tunisian uprisings of December 2010 are often depicted in negative terms, as lacking leadership, ideology, and political organization. Nahda…
Protecting freedom of religion in the secular age
I want to start with a paradox. In the secular age, as Charles Taylor has amply illustrated, religious belief no…
On the secularist-Islamist divide
At Al Jazeera English, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd gives an abridged history of the past half-century of Tunisian politics, and relays the Enahddan notion that the…