November 27, 2020 Gaston, K. Healan. Imagining Judeo-Christian America: Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Between what commentators have called the “culture wars” and Joe Biden’s “battle for the soul of the nation” campaign, Judeo-Christian rhetoric and imagery pervades the present-day United States. In Imagining Judeo-Christian America: Religion, Secularism, and ...

November 6, 2020 Anderson, Amanda, Rita Felski, and Toril Moi. Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. In Character, Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski, and Toril Moi reassess the place and significance of character in literary studies. They argue that a century of professionalization and formalism in the field has reduced character to ...

October 30, 2020 Over the last several weeks, growing protests in the West African nation of Nigeria have driven many young people both in and outside the country to organize online. Recently, this online activism has even spurred celebrities in the US, such as Dwyane Wade, to tweet in support of Nigerian protestors. The country drew ...

October 29, 2020 Echoing and building on his prior calls for “the growth of a culture of encounter,” in Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis turns to the image of a polyhedron, a geometric shape or figure that is marked by multiple polygonal planes which can vary in shape and size. The polyhedron, Francis explains, “can represent a ...

September 3, 2020 A day after President Obama delivered his speech at the Democratic National Convention 2020, David Blight named him “an American Jeremiah.” The designation is easy enough to understand as an attempt to signal the “all-American” power of Obama’s rhetoric by classifying it under that venerable “all-American” genre. Ten days ago, contesting Blight’s claim ...

August 31, 2020 Lamb, Michael, and Brian A. Williams, eds. Everyday Ethics: Moral Theology and The Practices of Ordinary Life. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2019. Banner, Michael. The Ethics of Everyday Life: Moral Theology, Social Anthropology, and the Imagination of the Human. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Everyday Ethics is a collection of essays that responds to ...