Though I haven’t written much on neoliberalism lately, I still dip into the literature now and again. The next book in my queue, Robert McDonald’s Works Like a Charm: Incentive Rhetoric…| An und für sich
[The following is a conference presentation delivered at the American Academy of Religion’s annual conference in San Diego, under the auspices of the Political Theology programming unit.] The…| An und für sich
[I delivered this paper at the conference “Figuring the Enemy” at St. Andrews University, June 6-8. Thank you to Scott Kirkland for the invitation!] In this paper, I want to draw a comp…| An und für sich
In the wake of Biden’s withdrawal from the race and Kamala Harris’s shockingly rapid and decisive ascension, I have begun feeling emotions that I haven’t allowed myself to feel in…| An und für sich
For a long time, I’ve been reading comic books before bed. This habit kicked into high gear when I purchased an iPad — “officially” to help me organize my lecture notes and …| An und für sich
Once on Twitter, I mentioned that my lifetime had seen a world-historical calamity roughly once a decade: the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the one-two pu…| An und für sich
I allowed myself a more restful summer than usual. I didn’t have any major writing projects, and I broke with my usual neurotic approach to class prep and largely left it aside for most of th…| An und für sich
This summer I have been working on an article comparing Paul and the Qur’an, which will build upon a conference presentation I gave last year on the same topic. In many ways, despite the fact…| An und für sich
In the wake of the attempted assassination of Trump, a common trope has reemerged: that of martyrdom. In the Financial Times, for example, Edward Luce opined, “It is not just Donald Trump who…| An und für sich
The last decade or so has been marked by a global resurgence of the extreme right. Its most prominent avatars in the West are the Brexit campaign and the Trump phenomenon, while various right-wing …| An und für sich
Beatrice has a great post up today about what she calls the “theology of the now.” By this, she means the kind of rhetoric encapsulated in a well-known Flaming Lips song from around the…| An und für sich
A few years ago, I was part of an event commemorating Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom. Obviously, I was brought in to represent the “against” position (and you can read a…| An und für sich
It’s been almost a year since I officially quit Twitter. Since then, I have been making do with Bluesky, which is basically a Twitter clone that is not directly owned by Elon Musk. Users of B…| An und für sich
We started Veronica Mars shortly before the pandemic, and in our hands it did not benefit from its status as an unintentional pandemic watch. We knew that this tale of a sassy teenage detective was…| An und für sich
One of the most rewarding side-effects of my teaching in the Shimer Great Books School has been the exploration of art that it prompted. I’ve written here before about how my teaching of the …| An und für sich
