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A few years ago, I started to question the role and status of the human being in the natural realm. Although we know very well that we are animals, we feel that we occupy a special place in nature—at least, so it is in the Western culture. We are part of nature, even though the […]
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In a moment, I’m going to tell you about my book. But before I do that, I’d like to ask you to perform a quick intellectual exercise: think of something that, in your view, is really terrible. It could be a movie, or a song, or a political outlook, or even a person-as long as […]
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Many years ago I developed an amateur interest in British ecclesiastical history, brought about particularly by reading on holiday Diarmaid MacCulloch’s astonishing biography of Thomas Cranmer (1996); and I thought it would be fascinating to link this interest with my professional work in English historical linguistics and philology, thus contributing to what David Crystal and […]
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Extreme voices dominate the national public debate in America over the proper role of religion and politics. Christian nationalists call for Christianity to dominate politics and culture. At the other extreme, strict secularists seek to remove all religious influence in the public square. Unfortunate dynamics in American media coverage make it appear that these views […]
Read MoreIn the past several years we have witnessed a rapid and unsettling shift from the “post-racial” aspirations of the Obama era and the global outcry of the Black Lives Matter movement after the murder of George Floyd to our present reality, in which far-right nationalist politics are surging in many parts of the globe. The […]
Read MoreI’ve written about Wollstonecraft a lot, in the last fifteen years: books, articles, edited volumes. I started writing about her the minute I found out about her. And I found out about her because a male colleague suggested we add her Vindication of the Rights of Woman to our intro to social and political philosophy […]
Read MoreAs a pre-teen, I was fascinated with how cosmological and biological evolution led to humanity. Every new book checked out from the library led me to rewrite increasingly long, detailed lists of every step along the way. One day as I was writing the newest one, my father suggested that I call my list “How […]
Read MoreThe question of why there is something rather than nothing is supposed to be one of those “big” timeless topics in philosophy. And yet surprisingly few full-length books are published on the topic. Perhaps this is because it has a reputation for being such a difficult and mind-boggling question. But I think that we can […]
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