Without a Vision
Without a vision, the people perish. Let your young men see visions and your old men dream dreams. Those words sound particularly hollow at the moment, and yet they resonate with what is lacking and...
View ArticleBlurred or Entangled: On the nature of our commitments
It may seem futile to begin to argue about the language we use, but I happen to believe that it does make a practical difference to how we describe the world and then how we try to shape it. I note...
View ArticleHeterotopia: Alternative Pathways to Social Justice
My maternal grandfather had a saying “If things don’t change, they’ll stop as they are”. Perhaps not the most illuminating of statements, but peculiarly appropriate to this later age when we are...
View ArticleBook Preview: Alain Badiou: Between Theology and Anti-theology
Like many who work at the intersection of theology and continental philosophy of religion, I was first introduced to the work of Alain Badiou through his Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism. In...
View ArticleDemocratic revolutions and gun rights – forging a more global perspective on...
Everyone is familliar with Mao Tse-Tung’s famous dictum, first formulated during the Long March in the 1930s, that “all power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” The saying often has gushily romantic...
View ArticleThe revolution against the state – something to celebrate this Fourth of July
As the Fourth of July, the 237th anniversary of America’s famous epoch-staging revolution against Britain arrives, the world is gripped by the strangest of ironies in this strangest of times. The...
View ArticleRussia, America, and the Rebirth of History (Carl Raschke)
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger,” Nietzsche wrote. As the global neo-liberal order slowly unravels before our eyes, that recognition holds more true today than ever. Source
View ArticleA Philosophy of Christian Materialism: Entangled Fidelities and the Public...
This book is both a project and a staging post on a shared journey. It is a place where, for a brief moment, the three of us came to rest in order to explore and expand upon our separate reflections on...
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