A Political and Literary Forum
Two new books take aim at the moral failures of meritocracy. But we can advocate for a more just society without giving up on merit.
Agnes Callard
Contempt for religion costs Democrats more than votes.
Michael Gecan
The place of Christianity in public life.
Albert J. Raboteau
The Democrats called, but they didn’t call back.
Ari Lipman
Mistakes are made. We are sometimes wrong about the time of the next train, the restaurant’s
Alex Byrne
How evangelical Protestantism came to dominate American religion.
Gary B. Nash
In search of a Muslim democracy.
Helena Cobban
Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century.
Alex Byrne, Ned Hall
Western dominance, Islamist terror, and the Arab imagination.
Sadiq J. Al-Azm
Conservatives after the Cold War.
Corey Robin
Review: The Jewish Political Tradition.
Hilary Putnam
France's headscarf controversy.
John R. Bowen
How our brains help us understand other people.
Rebecca Saxe
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