Issue 13: Politics of Change

Christopher Benson

What Would Nietzsche Do?

This essay considers political disenchantment as an act of religious engagement.

Michael Van Dyke

Anarchist Imperatives and Fundamental Change

This essay argues that an anarchist critique of institutions needs to reemerge in America in order to deepen our political life and make fundamental changes imaginable.

Scott Cairns

Pure Enough

A poem about seeking inner peace amid the cacophony of public discourse.

Scott Cairns

Pure Enough

A poem about seeking inner peace amid the cacophony of public discourse.

Matthew Brouwer

Blues President

In this spoken-word poem, Matthew Brouwer riffs on his ideal presidential candidate, a leader who knows the blues.

Marjorie Maddox

A House Divided

In this poem, Marjorie Maddox considers the potential for salvation in catastrophe when we open our eyes to change.

Charles Taylor, Ron Kuipers

Accommodation, Islamophobia, and the Politics of Mobilization: An Interview with Charles Taylor (Part Three of Three)

In this interview, Charles Taylor discusses how his findings as part of the Quebec Commission square with the analysis of contemporary society set forth in “A Secular Age,” addressing such topics as secularism, accommodation, Islamophobia, and the politics of mobilization.

Part I of the Taylor/Kuipers interview can be found here. Part II of the Taylor/Kuipers interview can be found here.