Modernity seems to produce its own specific pathologies. These pathologies are present as global catastrophes, such as global wars, climate crises, and genocides, or as more “common” and almost ...

One of the most useful concepts for understanding the world today is the late Marxist sociologist Zygmunt Bauman’s brainchild “liquid modernity.” I used it in The Benedict Option, and continue to find ...

A conversation with the German theorist about the history of Western philosophy and more. In 2019, Jürgen Habermas—perhaps Europe’s most well-known living philosopher—published his long-awaited Auch ...

Muqtedar Khan teaches at the University of Delaware. He is a co-founder of the Delaware Council for Global and Muslim Affairs and is on Twitter. Updated December 6, 2015, 11:09 PM How can we wrap our ...

Gut-based conditions are on the rise worldwide as are broader patterns of disrupted relationships between humans and food. In particular, the last two decades have witnessed an explosion of scientific ...

The global crisis of the 21st century is not merely a temporary geopolitical instability, but an ontological moment of disintegration where Capitalist Modernity has reached its structural limits and ...

Last week’s column, (see “The American backlash against modernity,” 1/26/25) elicited responses that seemed to conflate three distinct yet related ideas: modernity, “wokeness,” and diversity, equity, ...

President Donald Trump’s political comeback in the 2024 United States presidential election, though not a landslide, is nothing short of phenomenal. He secured victories in all the swing states, ...

Although the Global South has often been addressed in political and economic terms, less attention has been granted to how it might be understood from an intellectual standpoint. One answer to this ...