Religion

Do We Need a God?

Maybe not.

  • Richard Eldridge

Darwin and Design

A debate about the latest defense of intelligent design.

  • William A. Dembski
  • H. Allen Orr

A Sublime Detective Story

William Dembski's No Free Lunch makes a confused case for Intelligent Design.

  • H. Allen Orr

The Place of Tolerance in Islam

On reading and misreading the Qur’an.

  • Khaled Abou El Fadl
with responses from
  • Amina Wadud
  • John L. Esposito
  • Sohail H. Hashmi

Beyond the Civil Rights Industry

Black problems are real, and often getting worse. We need new leadership community-based leadership in the black community.

  • Eva T. Thorne
  • Eugene F. Rivers III
with responses from
  • Lani Guinier
  • Cathy J. Cohen
  • J. Phillip Thompson
  • Ronald J. Sider
  • Alan Wolfe
  • Julianne Malveaux
  • Ellen Willis
  • Peter Dreier
  • Manning Marable

Gould on God

Can religion and science be happily reconciled?

  • H. Allen Orr

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Primo Levi’s Last Moments

On that tragic Saturday, only his body was smashed.

  • Diego Gambetta

Silence Is Death

An interview with the Rev. Eugene Rivers III.

  • Eugene F. Rivers III
  • Eva T. Thorne

The Last Time I Saw Yaakov

No matter how political things seem, they are invariably personal.

  • Neil Gordon
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