The Notes Taken

Gregor McLennan reviews Terry Eagleton's Trouble with Strangers and Reason, Faith, and Revolution in the latest New Left Review (64, ...

My friend Ideas Man has written a sharp essay on the Creation Museum, built near the Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky border, in the suburbs of ...

Walter Benjamin argues, in an early fragment entitled “Capitalism as Religion” (dated 1921), that capitalism serves a religious function ins...

In Malaysia there is growing tensions over the use of the word "Allah." Some Malaysian Muslims think non-Islamic religions have n...

I am currently working on a paper in which I argue that the tradition of French atheism, starting with Sartre, presents a much stronger ethi...

I am about half way through Christopher Hitchens' god is not Great , and I can admit that, at this point, it is well written; much bette...