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What do Larry Summers, Gap CEO Paul Pressler, and personal computer mogul Michael Dell all have in common? Pressler may be better dressed, and Dell, with a net worth estimated at $17.1 billion, is a whole lot wealthier than the former Harvard president. But all three men have made BusinessWeek...
Well, not quite. But this year he has emerged as a far more compelling and complex figure than anyone had imagined. And much of that has to do with his willingness to confront what some people feel is today's equivalent of the communist scourge--the threat of Islamic violence...
There is, at heart, a crucial difference between intrinsic traits like skin color and gender and philosophical stances like religious conviction. Hatred of a person or a group of people is not the same as hatred of an idea or a religion. It’s the distinction Christians often...
Of course, one might object that religions are hardly just a set of ideas divorced from reality, that indeed, religions tend to be the product of an ethno-cultural background. But while ethnicity or race often determine extrinsic behavior and values, they are by themselves entirely intrinsic. One is born...
The committee’s implication is clear—religion may be useful as a lens through which we can better see our society, but it has less intrinsic value as a field of study than, say, science, history, or literature. Otherwise, why wouldn’t the general...