Secularism and American Pluralism
In this 2018 article, Shadi Hamid discusses the importance of a “modest” American pluralism that can accommodate the fact that “there isn’t a common good to be found; that, because…
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Martin Hägglund’s “This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom”
It is not too far-fetched to believe that a new religion will develop within the next few hundred years, a religion which corresponds to the development of the human race;…
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Religious Fundamentalism, Radical Feminism and the Undermining of Secular Values
In 2019, the religious right in America lobbied state governments to have their theological assumptions about abortion embedded in law. Several states complied, outlawing abortion under most circumstances. Likewise, in…
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Israel: Toxic Church-State Relations and the Necessity of Secularism
When it was formed in 1948, Israel was declared a place for the world’s Jews to call home after almost two millennia of Jewish exile and persecution and the recent…
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Is France Charlie?
France has been a crucible of radical philosophy since the eighteenth century, and was the pre-eminent centre for the arts in the nineteenth and twentieth. It was France to which…
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Scouting Without Faith
I met my husband the summer before our junior year in high school. He had already achieved the rank of Eagle in The Boy Scouts of America (BSA). In those…
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On Being a Proud Indian
We are little men serving great causes, but because the cause is great, something of that greatness falls upon us also.—Jawaharlal Nehru, 1946. The resurgence of muscular Hindu ethnonationalism under…
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How Religious Arguments Cheat in the Marketplace of Ideas
While the separation of church and state is a norm in many western societies, it is often inadequately upheld in the marketplace of ideas. Claims that the country is a…
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Replacing Religion: How Secularism Has Failed and How It Can Succeed
Imagine a world in which individuals based their opinions on reason. Now, it is all but a certainty that human beings will at times fail to use logic in their…
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Australia’s Census Result Heralds a Secular Shift
The surge in “No religion” in the 2016 Census heralds a more secular Australia. With a rise from 22.3% in 2011 to 30.1% in 2016, “No Religion” has overtaken Catholicism to…
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Has Europe Ceased to Exist?
It was on my 15th birthday in the Summer of 2005 in Northern Morocco that, by chance, I got my hands on a series of online articles about the European…
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Feeding the Two Far Rights: How Western Leaders Betray Liberal Values
The President of the United States and leader of the free world, Barack Obama, won’t even use the words ‘Islamic terrorism’ to talk about terrorism that is inspired by a…
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