A follow-up piece to my essay in the July/August New Humanist on religion and raising my children, in which I engage some of the most interesting and though-provoking responses I received to the original article. Among those to whom I respond are the sociologist Robert Bellah (author of Habits of the Heart), the poet Martín Espada (author of City of Coughing and Dead Radiators), the cultural critic Marshall Berman (author of All That Is Solid Melts into Air), and the philosopher Roger Scruton (author of A Short History of Modern Philosophy, among many other books).
The Summer 2009 issue of Logos (a journal of which I am proud to be a contributing editor) contains an interview I conducted with the Iranian political scientist Hossein Bashiriyeh about recent events in Iran. It provides some of the most in-depth analysis of those events yet to appear (at least in English).
But there are several other treasures on offer in the new issue: Mark Luccarelli's "From Revolution to a New Global System: Reflections on the Breakdown of 'Globalization' and the Future(s) of the International Order", Mike Lynn's "The Revolution is Upon Us: The Age of Crisis and the End of Homo Economicus", and David Mason's "Entering a Systemic Revolution", among others. I'm pleased to have had a hand in these three pieces: they are each based on presentations at The Past and Future(s) of Revolution, a conference I helped organize back in March.
Logos is a phenomenal publication. You can join the journal's Facebook group here.