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A Secular Age

In writing A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has slowly, and thoroughly built what is in essence his life’s work. He first lays out the terms that he intends to work with in defining secularism. This is more than what flies in public spaces, and the…

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A Secular Age

In writing A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has slowly, and thoroughly built what is in essence his life’s work. He first lays out the terms that he intends to work with in defining secularism. This is more than what flies in public spaces, and the…

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Freedom is a joke. Specifically, a satirical joke

The recent terrorist attack in Paris highlights perhaps the great political dilemma of the current age, that of Western freedoms being used to destroy Western freedoms.  But perhaps just as importantly, its target was perfectly chosen.  Democracy requires more than…