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Peter Buffet, Reza Aslan, Mark Leibovich, etc. 31 Jul 2013 | 10:00 pm
What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it. Foundation dollars should be the best “risk capital” out there. Th...
Liberal Christianity 24 Jul 2013 | 11:11 pm
Two pieces popped up today. One, "A Religious Legacy with a Leftward Tilt" in the NYT today, which talks about recent scholarship that is trying to show how liberal Protestant Christianity has shaped ...
Does it Matter What People Think or Believe? 15 Jul 2013 | 11:14 pm
Or only what they do? I think that ultimately what most matters is what they do, the choices they make, but the scope of what they can do--the scope for their freedom--is expanded or limited by what o...
The Judaeo-Christian Cosmogonic Myth 12 Jul 2013 | 09:18 pm
[This is a repost from 2010--with a few changes. I thought I'd throw it out there again since it links to a bunch of themes that have come up in comments recently--second naiveté, Mary, the flat, univ...
Brooks on A Secular Age 9 Jul 2013 | 07:25 pm
Brooks's column this morning tries to summarize Charles Taylor's A Secular Age. There's nothing particularly striking in it to quote, but if you're not familiar with the book, the column will give you...
It Is Futile to Reason with Them 8 Jul 2013 | 09:09 pm
From "Misreading Eichmann in Jerusalem" by Roger Berkowitz in yesterday's NYT: That evil, Arendt argued, originates in the neediness of lonely, alienated bourgeois people who live lives so devoid of h...
Sirota v. Brooks on Egypt's Mental Capacity 6 Jul 2013 | 02:29 am
“No more election after today,” the crowd chanted in response. After a night of deadly clashes at Cairo University that accompanied the takeover, some ultraconservative Islamists gathered there said t...
Egypt and the Problem of Democratic Legitimacy 4 Jul 2013 | 08:15 pm
According to the civics text books, a democracy is a government in which the people are sovereign. In its republican forms it elects people who represent them in legislatures, and they work to create ...
The Limits of Authenticity 1 Jul 2013 | 10:01 pm
Simon Critchey in a recent NYT piece: Unlike the conversions that transfigure the born-again’s experience of the world in a lightning strike, this one occurred in stages: a postwar existentialist phil...
Taking Offense 29 Jun 2013 | 11:01 pm
This is the week when the news is filled with Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, Paula Deen's cluelessness, and the end of DOMA, and so I've had a few things on my mind about setting and crossing li...
