Philosophy

What We Know

On the universals of language and rights

  • Noam Chomsky

Christ’s Militia

How evangelical Protestantism came to dominate American religion.

  • Gary B. Nash

Taking Faith Seriously

Contempt for religion costs Democrats more than votes.

  • Michael Gecan

American Salvation

The place of Christianity in public life.

  • Albert J. Raboteau

Losing Faith

The Democrats called, but they didn’t call back.

  • Ari Lipman

Is Snow White?

And other questions about appearance and reality.

  • Alex Byrne

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Hizbullah’s New Face

In search of a Muslim democracy.

  • Helena Cobban

Necessary Truths

On Scott Soames’s Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century.

  • Alex Byrne
  • Ned Hall

Time Out of Joint

Western dominance, Islamist terror, and the Arab imagination.

  • Sadiq J. Al-Azm

Muslims and Citizens

France’s headscarf controversy.

  • John R. Bowen

Reading Your Mind

How our brains help us understand other people.

  • Rebecca Saxe

The Chosen People

Rather than apologizing for the Jewish tradition or putting it on a pedestal, The Jewish Political Tradition stresses its living and agonistic character.

  • Hilary Putnam

Believing in America

An intellectual project and a national ideal.

  • Leo Marx

Making the Mind

Why we’ve misunderstood the nature-nurture debate.

  • Gary Marcus

The End of Sociology?

The tradition by which public intellectuals hope to resurrect sociology asks compelling questions

  • John H. Summers

Tragedy and Justice

Bernard Williams remembered

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

Why We’re So Tough on Crime

The widening divide between America and Europe.

  • Carol S. Steiker

Iran’s Other Religion

The birthplace of Zarathustianism.

  • Jehangir Pocha

Memory’s Lair

Memory, like everything else in the world, can be clumsily used, or unintelligently used, or used for false purposes or in bad faith.

  • Susie Linfield

The Patriot Act on Campus

Defending the university after 9/11

  • Jonathan R. Cole

The Secret History of the Magna Carta

Its most far-reaching provisions aren’t the ones we remember.

  • Peter Linebaugh

Islam and the Challenge of Democracy

How can a democratic conception of the people’s authority be reconciled with an Islamic understanding of God’s authority?

  • Khaled Abou El Fadl
with responses from
  • John L. Esposito
  • Nader Hashemi
  • Noah Feldman
  • Jeremy Waldron
  • M.A. Muqtedar Khan
  • A. Kevin Reinhart
  • Saba Mahmood
  • Mohammad Fadel
  • Bernard Haykel
  • William B. Quandt

Return of the Repressed

The strange case of Masud Khan.

  • Robert S. Boynton

Taking Ideas Seriously

Can we distinguish political choices from philosophical truths?

  • Seyla Benhabib
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