I look at the practice of democracy not so much as a fixed set of procedural requirements, but as a process that needs to have certain kinds of symbolic markers and consummations that define where people are in relation to each other.
When people’s personal friendship networks become more religiously diverse, that seems to make them more accepting of other faiths, but it also turns out that if you add friends within a congregation, more church friends, you actually become more civically engaged.
The role of frank speech in democratic culture is something worth considering, especially in light of the renewed ferment over political correctness.
The post-Auschwitz consensus that made overt anti-Semitism strictly forbidden is rapidly fading.
Can neoliberalism’s conceptual structure be traced directly to medieval Western Christianity?
The highly abstract and immaterial phantom economy is inextricable from the “real economy.”
While structures of power may change quickly, the building of a new social order is a longer and more precarious process.
Bernie Sanders at Liberty University is more than a momentary truce in the culture war.