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Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

The Quest to Tell Science from Pseudoscience

Philosopher Karl Popper famously asked how to tell the two apart. His answer—falsifiability—hasn’t aged well, but the effort lives on.

Michael D. Gordin

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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

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Return of the Repressed

The strange case of Masud Khan.

Robert S. Boynton

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Taking Ideas Seriously

Can we distinguish political choices from philosophical truths?

Seyla Benhabib

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Do We Need a God?

Maybe not.

Richard Eldridge

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

The Diaspora and the Intifada

American Jews have a responsibility to criticize Israel for its unjust occupation of Palestine.

Ben-Zion Gold

Arts in Society, Philosophy & Religion

Unnatural Sentences

Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science.

Brenda Wineapple

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Embryonic Stem Cell Research

A moral defense.

F. M. Kamm

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Citizenship in Emergency

Can democracy protect us against terrorism?

Elaine Scarry

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Darwin and Design

A debate about the latest defense of intelligent design.

William A. Dembski, H. Allen Orr

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

A Sublime Detective Story

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

H. Allen Orr

Law & Justice, Philosophy & Religion

Recent Books on Capital Punishment

 The nine volumes under review here add much of value to the already burgeoning literature on the death penalty.

Hugo Adam Bedau

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The Place of Tolerance in Islam

On reading and misreading the Qur'an.

Khaled Abou El Fadl

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