After several posts, I tried to move on from the European Burqa Ban issue, and the NY Times’ coverage of it, but Martha Nussbaum’s eloquent explanation of John Locke’s and Roger Williams’s liberal conceptions of religious freedom and equally eloquent deconstruction of the most common arguments for such bans – all of which have been [...]
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Here is a link to Roger Cohen’s op-ed in Tuesday’s NY Times on European Solidarity or lack thereof. Here are a few remarks: I think that while reading the complaints about Greece’s overly generous welfare state that currently abound in the Anglophone and German media (though I am not saying that this is all there is to [...] Tintin's outfit was deemed an afront to liberal society Apologies for a long absence, my excellent philosophy students at the University of the West of England have been demanding my time and intellectual energy with their very good questions and essays… how insensitive to you my dear readers! I was going to post this update on [...] I sincerely apologize to my distinguished readership (and to all Belgians) for the extremely low-brow nature of the link in this post, it is so insidious that I am ashamed of it by the sheer fact that it is conducted in the language I call my own, all I can really say is UGH! Nonetheless, [...] Varia: In relation to my last post, I was very flattered to see that former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt is clearly a devoted post-europe reader! While it’s often said that the problem with liberals is that they are hard to find, Verhofstadt may be pretty close to the real thing. He has thoughtfully responded to my post [...] The Rights of Woman? I don’t mean for this to become a regular feature and I don’t want to do any free publicity for the New York Times (though they need all the help they can get these days), but I have been trying to follow this story and the way that it is presented in the [...] The New York Times has an interesting piece in last Sunday’s edition on the growing use of propaganda posters by far-right parties in Europe. The prime example being the image in the “Ja” poster (appearing below in my last post). These posters are simple, direct and play to the worst fears of a target audience, [...] The Swiss have voted by a large majority to ban the construction of new mosque minarets. The right rejoices. In France, Xavier Bertrand, leader of France’s UMP didn’t seem terrbily concerned but Bernard Kouchner is a bit scandalised; in Germany the spokesperson for the ruling CDU says the fear of Islam must be taken seriously – yes, but how? [...] So the deal has been done (behind closed doors of course!) on who will fill the role of the new European Council President. Merkel and Sarkozy finally decided that Belgian prime minister Herman van Rompuy is their man. Van Rompuy is credited with being a strong behind the scenes negotiator, and with managing to not let Belgium [...] |
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