Israel's Missteps with Palestine - Slavoj Žižek
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Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek accuses Israel of a "systematic" political effort to make life difficult for Palestinians, and blames the current Israeli/Hamas crisis on a mishandled approach to religious fundamentalism. This excerpt is taken from a debate between philosophers Bernard-Henri Lévy and Slavoj Žižek on the modern Left. For the c... Read more
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- -: Israel's Missteps with Palestine - Slavoj Žižek
January 5, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek accuses Israel of a "systematic" political effort to make life difficult for Palestinians, and blames the current Israeli/Hamas crisis on a mishandled approach to religious fundamentalism. This excerpt is taken from a debate between philosophers Bernard-Henri L...
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- -: Thomas Jefferson's Bible Mashup - Steven Johnson
January 30, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/01/17/Steven_Johnson_The_Invention_of_Air Author Steven Johnson credits scientist Joseph Priestley's religious philosophy -- a balance of science and reason that valued morals over miracles -- as inspiration for Thomas Jefferson's "remix" of the Bible. ---...
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- -: The Future of Religious Nationalism - Reza Aslan
June 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/15/Reza_Aslan_How_to_Win_a_Cosmic_War Reza Aslan, religious scholar and author of How to Win a Cosmic War, and Phil Bronstein, editor-at-large for the San Francisco Chronicle, discuss the problematic nature of religious nationalism. "It's a force that ca...
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- -: Where Religion Meets Politics: Church, State and American History
December 24, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/12/07/The_Great_Issues_Forum_Varieties_of_Nonbelief Susan Jacoby discusses the effects religion has had on American politics since the drafting of the Constitution. Denys Turner points out that despite America's formal separation of church and state, religi...
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