Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Settler secularism aims to control religion and limit the spirits to their designated domain. But they can never entirely be contained.
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Targeting Jews for the way they express themselves as Jews is very clearly not part of a struggle against antisemitism, but antisemitic itself.
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To the extent that there is a comprehensible theology underlying the Trump Administration’s engagement with the world, it is not premised upon an understanding or tenet of Christianity.
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The resettling of Afrikaners and the shunning of South Africa makes a mockery of refugee resettlement based on international norms and the claim of genocide.
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In 1977, a few months prior to his arrest and subsequent murder by the South African apartheid state, Steve Biko,…
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When refuge becomes the privilege of the powerful rather than the shield of the vulnerable, we are not merely distorting the ideals of humanitarianism, we are dismantling them.
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Calls for limits to free speech advocated by people like Claire O. Finkelstein are part of a wider ideological project in support of an Israeli propaganda war (Ebrahim Moosa).
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A paraphenomenology of darkness allows us to see the brutality of history, the violence not simply of statues, but of the fight over statues.
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Conspiracy theories flourish in systems of thought that have no place for systemic thinking, in which there are only individuals with agency, operating either for the good or the bad.
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Buddhist studies, on the whole, has not acknowledged, let alone addressed, issues of colonization, white supremacy, and the erasure of Asian people and cultures within the field.
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