April 1, 2023

Critical Conversation No. 12 – Hindu Nationalism And The Growing Threat To Academic Freedom (Announcement)

When? Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, 9-11 am, Mountain Standard Time (5-7 pm, European Central Time) How: Zoom. By Advance Registration. Please register at the following link below. You must register in advance of the seminar, whereupon you will be automatically sent the actual Zoom participation link. Registration link:  https://udenver.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclcu6rqDIiH9R4aLXGUiw00dKj1BD0UWZw General Contact: editor.thenewpolis@gmail.com Moderator: Carl Raschke, Executive Editor, The New Polis. […]

Critical Conversations No. 11 – “Whiteshift,” Or The The Dynamics Of Race And Populism With Eric Kaufmann

The following is the video and written transcript of an online interview and Zoom seminar with Eric Kaufmann, Professor of Political Science at Birkbeck College of London. Prof. Kaufmann is an internationally distinguished demographer and researcher and a gentle critic of the excesses of Critical Race Theory. The following session took place on Sept.28, 2021 […]

The State of Exception As Apocalyptic Desire – Overcoming A Persecuting Society, Part 4 (Roger Green)

The following is the fourth of a multi-part series. The first can be found here, the second here, the third here. I have been arguing in previous posts, following William Cavanaugh and many other recent scholars of religion, the claim that ‘religion’ as a concept ought not be regarded as static or transcendent entity.   I […]