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Greg Grandin, Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism Metropolitan, 2007

In the 1980s, the emergent US New Right took shape on the battleground of Central America, bringing together secular free-marketers and evangelical Christians in an unholy alliance. Historian Greg Grandin talks about the ideology of US neo-conservatism in Central America, while David McNally speaks about the offensive of neoliberalism and the roots of the current financial meltdown.

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Andrew Pessin's blog

 

Does God exist? And if God does not exist, why do so many people believe in God? Questions like these have been taken up by thinkers like Plato, Augustine, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Buber. In The God Question, Andrew Pessin examines what some of the best Western minds have asserted about the divine.

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Jakobsen & Pellegrini, eds., Secularisms Duke U. Press, 2008

 

 

Is secularism the modernizing, progressive answer to stuck-in-the-past religion? Janet Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini call into question the secularism-religion binary; they contend that a kind of Christian secularism dominates US politics. They also see gender and sexuality as central to the development of both the neoliberal agenda and what they call Barack Obama's Neo-New Deal.

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Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, "Tolstoy the Peculiar Christian Anarchist"

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Leo Tolstoy was much more than a novelist. He also spoke out against state authority, war, laws, patriotism, and economic exploitation. Many of Tolstoy's anarcho-pacifist views were informed by his mid-life conversion to Christianity. Alexandre Christoyannopoulos discusses Tolstoy's Christian anarchism.

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Keith Bunin's The Busy World is Hushed at Aurora Theatre

In his new short-story collection The Boat, Nam Le expertly portrays people in difficult circumstances in places like Hiroshima, Tehran, Colombia, and the South China Sea. And in The Busy World is Hushed, playwright Keith Bunin examines faith, family, and the complexity of human relationships.