In the classic film Casablanca, the Frenchwoman Yvonne, one of the regulars of Rick’s Café, joins the other refugees assembled there to sing the Marseillaise, boldly defying the Nazi officers present....
Ottoman officials praying at Daraa Station. Source: Istanbul University, Rare Books Library, Sultan Abdülhamid II Photo Albums. NEKYA 90521/1. In 1886, the second edition of the yearbook of...
The epistle of 2 Peter is not merely a polemic against false teachers; it is founded upon a compelling theological vision of life with God. In my commentary on 2 Peter, I argue that the letter’s ethical...
One of the outcomes of my examination of 2 Peter is challenging the widely held scholarly designation of this letter as a “testament.” This genre classification has been profoundly influential, particularly...
Jon-Adrian (JJ) Velazquez has recently sued New York City and its police for $100 million stemming from his wrongful murder conviction. Velazquez is best known for his role in the Oscar nominated...
1. What makes the book particularly timely and urgent in today’s global climate conversation? Why is now a critical moment to publish this book? This book re-emphasises the fact that the climate...
For much of the past decade, corporations occupied a very visible place in public life. They spoke after Charlottesville and January 6, opposed the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, intervened in immigration...
Corruption is often treated as an obvious problem with an obvious explanation. Public officials, driven by self-interest, abuse their positions; to stop this behavior, we need better incentives, stricter...
In 2019, Paul Manafort was sentenced to 73 months in jail for failing to register as with the United States Justice Department an agent of pro-Russian Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych. The story became...
Nostalgia has become a defining emotion of twenty-first-century Western culture. From endless film franchise reboots, to the Eras Tour, to the 1980s world of Stranger Things, our media seems perpetually...
A lot of ethical programs are predicated on ideas of sameness and reciprocity. These programs urge us to imagine other people as similar to ourselves and to treat them accordingly. This is the essence...
What makes someone a heretic? In the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, heresy is ‘the obstinate denial or obstinate doubt after the reception of baptism of some truth which is to be believed by...