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Articles in Philosophy & Religion tagged with History

After decades of deference to the market, states are exerting greater control over capital. In the face of climate change, it may be too little, too late.

Jonathan S. Blake

Becca Rothfeld speaks with Samuel Moyn about his book Liberalism Against Itself and why liberalism is in crisis.

Becca Rothfeld, Samuel Moyn

Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism helps us fight fascism with greater clarity and with ever more questions.

Robin D. G. Kelley

A new book suggests that modern readers can still follow the path of reason that Spinoza traced to true well-being, but they might not want to.

Carlos Fraenkel

Pestilence and plague have often prompted waves of apocalyptic thinking, calling into question the steady march of progress in human history.

John Merrick
Anger’s history—along with the very fact that it has one—can shed light on the hypertrophied emotional climate of today.
David Konstan

In a sweeping history of Western philosophy, Jürgen Habermas narrates the progress of humanity through the unfolding of public reason.

Brandon Bloch

The city is running out of graves, and against the backdrop of the Israel–Palestine conflict, burial is often a political matter.

Etan Nechin

Oil’s grip on U.S. society is as much religious as economic.

Kim Phillips-Fein
Ingrid Rimland was a pioneering voice of the neo-Nazi Internet. She was also raised Mennonite, a peaceful religion with a long history of celebrating white “ethnic” identity.
Ben Goossen

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