charlie hebdo

It makes no difference whether or not Tarrant or Breivik were card-carrying members of racist organizations. They imagined themselves as triumphant warriors in a great social struggle.

As Republican presidential candidates and governors pronounce Muslims and Syrian refugees personae non grata after the horrific massacres in Paris on Friday, a major new poll about Americans’…

This article is part of It’s Your Fault, The Cubit ’s series on blame in contemporary society. In this essay, RD associate editor Michael Schulson analyzes the patterns of blame that emerge in the…

It is as if, by professing how much we hate all images, we in turn profess how much we really, in the end, love our images more than all others.

In a piece published in Le Point on January 12 th (translated and reprinted in Sightings on January 30 th) eminent philosopher-theologian Jean-Luc Marion declared, “France is at war; we can no longer…

The Boston Globe reported this week that the U.S. State Department will appoint a special envoy “to advocate for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people overseas.” Legislation…

Laïcité is not equivalent to the American notion of “secularism.”

US President Barack Obama made history this week with what are reported to have been the first appearances of the words lesbian, bisexual, and transgender in a State of the Union address. He also…

It’s ironic that a number of (mostly right wing) commentators have been invoking the ideals of freedom of speech and expression while praising an authoritarian leader who has cracked down on these…

This week the Human Rights Campaign released its list of countries to watch in 2015, both countries “where the fight for equality is making progress” and “those where the fundamental rights of LGBT…