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Romantic and Civic Nationalism
In a contribution to Bonds of Imperfection, Joan Lockwood O’Donovan examines varieties of nationalism and the neglected…
What’s Wrong With American Air Travel?
Tight accommodations, high prices, delays and cancellations, abysmal customer service. Nearly everything is wrong with American airline…
X and Non-X
In an essay on von Balthasar’s ontology of generosity (in Ordering Love), David L. Schindler calls attention…
Commerce and Its Discontents
Charles Taylor (Modern Social Imaginaries) observes that one of the great boasts of modernization has been to…
Learning from the Hapsburgs
Ross Douthat argues that the cultural and religious diversity of Europe and the US is an enemy…
Numerology of Psalm 72
Explaining the numerological structure of Psalm 72, C. J. Labuschagne points out that the Psalm has 17 verses…
Pop’s Un-formula
At ESPN, Elaine Teng states the obvious: San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg “Pop” Popovich has an unequalled record of…
Pain-Avoidant Economy
Luigino Bruni (The Wound and the Blessing) argues that “society without markets and contracts cannot be civil.”…
What Is A State?
In an essay on the “limits of the state,” Timothy Mitchell tests several theories of the state…
Toleration Without Liberalism
We Americans pride ourselves on our religious freedom absolutism. Officially, the U.S. permits all religious expression and…
Othello Off Pitch
The Sam Wanamker Playhouse, a Jacobean theater in the Globe complex in London, seats 340 in three…
Mugabe and the Pastor
The Mail & Guardian Africa reports on Zimbabwean pastor Evan Mawarire, who has inspired a nationwide resistance…
Policulturalism
Jean and John Comaroff offer what they recognize is “a rather stark inventory” of the symptoms of…
Ethnicity, Inc
Identity politics has weakened national identity, but it hasn’t destroyed it. As Jean and John Comaroff put…
State and Not-State
In a 1991 essay in the American Political Science Review, Timothy Mitchell assesses various theories of the…
