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  1. 9 hours ago

    Q.E.D.

    Best feedback about my last piece that critiqued uninformed writing on Copts in Egypt: an angry chap who won't confirm he knows Arabic, nor will say if he's even been to Egypt: but forms opinions about Copts based on some he's met in the US. And he lives in...Alaska
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    14 hours ago

    Two visions of justice: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Barack Obama. piece via

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    18 hours ago

    The sectarian way that minorities in the Middle East are often discussed almost exactly mimics colonial discourse.

    "When ME analysts treat minorities like undifferentiated wholes, they lend credence to ... sectarian inciters determined to cast doubt on the political status of those minorities": on the myth of Christian support for
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  4. 15 hours ago

    Australian are calling on the to confront the ugly truths revealed in the sexual abuse royal commission:

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  5. 15 hours ago

    What will replace in the future? ? ? Canadian psychologist and author joins Andrew West to tackle some deep questions:

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    Apr 2

    “King’s blindness to the gendered dimensions of charismatic authority and hierarchical leadership is reason enough to be critical of his example. Any retrieval of King’s legacy has to amend his triple evils to include a fourth: sexism.”

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    "When ME analysts treat minorities like undifferentiated wholes, they lend credence to ... sectarian inciters determined to cast doubt on the political status of those minorities": on the myth of Christian support for

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    Apr 4

    "Judged alongside King's transformative vision of racial equality and integration, Obama's philosophy proved morally deficient and uninspiring": considers compares the political philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr, and Barack Obama

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    Apr 4

    "The Myth of Christian Support for Sisi: On the Orientalist Turn in Middle East Analysis" my latest for ABC News via (discusses Fisk and others, as per Yassin al-Hajj)

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    Apr 4

    King was no 'founding father' of the order of Washington and Lincoln, nor was he a civic saint to be eulogized at a safe distance - he was a moral philosopher, a political prophet in the tradition of Emerson and Thoreau. And it makes all the difference when you read him that way.

    Can MLK’s moral challenge only be heard once he is freed from the theatricalised struggle for civil rights in the South? Listen back to our discussion of MLK *as moral philosopher* in the tradition of Emerson and Thoreau, with Prof. Paul C. Taylor
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  11. Apr 4

    "Judged alongside King's transformative vision of racial equality and integration, Obama's philosophy proved morally deficient and uninspiring": considers compares the political philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr, and Barack Obama

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  12. Apr 4

    Parents of people with Down syndrome worry about who will care for them when they no longer can?

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    Martin Luther King Jr was a radical. We must not sterilize his legacy | Cornel West

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  14. Apr 4

    This looks incredible ... the description of the book, I mean. The cover's great too.

    Just got a look at the cover of my new book. So excited allowed me to use his extraordinary art.
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    Can MLK’s moral challenge only be heard once he is freed from the theatricalised struggle for civil rights in the South? Listen back to our discussion of MLK *as moral philosopher* in the tradition of Emerson and Thoreau, with Prof. Paul C. Taylor

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    Apr 3

    We were delighted to have Professor here in Toronto last month for our annual Roseman Lecture in Practical Ethics, where he delivered his talk on “Anti-Prison Theory: The Limits of Functional Critique”. Read his latest:

    At what cost racial justice? compares the political philosophies and legacies of the two most politically consequential black figures of the last 50 years: Martin Luther King Jr, and Barack Obama
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    Apr 2

    Shelby's conclusion is as bracing as it is brilliant: "Judged alongside King's transformative vision of racial equality and integration, Obama's philosophy proved morally deficient and uninspiring. It failed to keep faith with King's precept: to use means as pure as our ends."

    At what cost racial justice? compares the political philosophies and legacies of the two most politically consequential black figures of the last 50 years: Martin Luther King Jr, and Barack Obama
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    At what cost racial justice? compares the political philosophies and legacies of the two most politically consequential black figures of the last 50 years: Martin Luther King Jr, and Barack Obama

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    This contrast between Martin Luther King Jr and Barack Obama is a most productive test-case of the limits of political pragmatism.

    Shelby's conclusion is as bracing as it is brilliant: "Judged alongside King's transformative vision of racial equality and integration, Obama's philosophy proved morally deficient and uninspiring. It failed to keep faith with King's precept: to use means as pure as our ends."
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    At what point must we refuse to compromise with injustice? This is an astonishing piece of political philosophy by one of today's greatest political philosophers. (You can hear me and discuss MLK *as political philosopher* on next week's Philosopher's Zone!)

    At what cost racial justice? compares the political philosophies and legacies of the two most politically consequential black figures of the last 50 years: Martin Luther King Jr, and Barack Obama
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