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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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 [...] 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 [...] |
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