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  1. Nevo's avatar

    Agree. The Hebrew text is pretty clear in identifying a natural kind called human spread around the world, but will…

  2. Matthew Hass's avatar

    I can only speak authoritatively about Judaism. As worded the quote from the review makes me uneasy. I know Bellah…

  3. Nevo's avatar

    I’d like to add on this: 1. Anyone who read a bit of the ancient Egyptian concept of Maat, that…

  4. Roger of Invisible America's avatar

    For me, the worry about anachronism still basically holds. But (as Hans Joas[1] might put it, and as Evan Thompson…

  5. Rollo Burgess's avatar

    I’ve read part 1 of this series (the one in which the axial age is covered); I would certainly not…

  6. Evan Thompson's avatar

    In general terms, Habermas takes the Axial Age to have introduced new theoretical attitudes that include second-order thinking (thinking about…

Ohio State’s “Civics” Center now paying students to take its classes and attend its events

Remarkable. (See the earlier discussion of these proliferating centers, whose political litmus test hiring procedures are lawsuits waiting to happen.)

(Thanks to Marc Lange for the pointer.)

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