This morning Newt Gingrich compared the construction of a proposed Islamic community center two blocks from the site of the former World Trade Center to posting a Nazi billboard next to the Holocaust Museum or building a Shinto shrine near Pearl Harbor. While the construction of the proposed...

Current political developments in Iran have fallen off the radar of the mainstream American news networks and off the front pages of major American newspapers. While it was certainly an admirable and heartening phenomenon to see so many Americans so engaged with a distant crisis -- and engaged with a...

It's not often that I get to combine my academic interests in comparative philosophy with my extracurricular interest in popular music. It's not that the aesthetic doesn't bear considerable weight in the philosophers that I work on. It certainly does. It does not, however, often collide with not one but...

The images and words coming out of Iran over the past week resonate strongly with those of us who have spent years poring over and trying to understand similar images and words which flooded out of Iran 30 years earlier. They have an even greater significance for the millions of...