25 November, 2011 // Category: Activism, Religion
Symon Hill is an activist, writer and trainer. He is associate director of the Christian thinktank Ekklesia and the author of The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion. He spoke to NLP's Alex Doherty on the reaction of the Church hierarchy to the presence of the Occupy protesters at St Paul's cathedral....
10 November, 2011 // Category: History, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, Racism, Religion, The Right
Corey Robin teaches political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. His latest book, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, brings together a decade of his writings on conservatism. In the second of a two-part interview he discusses his book...
09 November, 2011 // Category: Gender equality, Religion
Clive Hamilton is professor of public ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, based at the Australian National University. He is the author of The Freedom Paradox, Growth Fetish and, most recently, Requiem for a Species. In the first part of a two part interview he speaks...
21 October, 2011 // Category: Foreign policy, Media, Politics, Racism, Religion, Terror/War, The Right
The campaigning group Spinwatch launched a report on two right-wing think-tanks at the House of Commons last week. Co-authored by NLP’s Tom Mills, The Cold War on British Muslims argues that British neoconservatives are waging ideological warfare against Muslim and left-wing groups, and liberal...
21 July, 2011 // Category: Philosophy and Theory, Religion
Al-Qaeda returned the Enlightenment to the political agenda. The debate about the significance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Bush administration’s subsequent ‘war on terror’ was framed, in part, as a debate about Enlightenment values. For many the attacks spoke above all to the...
24 May, 2011 // Category: Culture, Media, Racism, Religion
Racism against Muslims, or Islamophobia, is an urgent problem that needs to be addressed. It has been on the rise in Europe and the United States for years, but several recent developments are of particular concern. In France, a law came into force last month banning the full face veil, which...
31 December, 2010 // Category: Activism, Religion, Vision/Strategy
Tim Holmes has one thing in common with George Osborne - they both went to Saint Paul’s School in London. In November, he was invited to speak to the school’s Christian Union. An edited transcript of that talk follows, in which he gives a wide-ranging analysis of the injustices inflicted by the...
10 May, 2010 // Category: Religion
Dr. Jim Rigby is pastor of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas. An activist for gay rights and women’s reproductive rights he spoke to NLP’s Alex Doherty on a radical interpretation of Christianity. Your journey seems to have been one of increasing politicization but without moving...
01 February, 2010 // Category: Religion
Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas. He is the author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity; The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege; and Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity among...
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