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Malcolm X Was More Interesting Than “Who Killed Malcolm X?”

Who killed President John F. Kennedy? Who killed civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr.? These questions have inspired some profoundly captivating conspiracies. However, Who Killed Malcolm X?—an overly long...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Philosophy in the Islamic World

...in Munich; he was formerly at King’s College London and retains a fractional appointment there. His research has mostly concerned philosophy in the Islamic world and its Greek sources, and...

What Incivility Gets Us (And What It Doesn’t)

...consideration for those who we have power over? Shutt quotes a guidebook from 1950 saying that it was a “credit to Lobengula [then King of the Ndebele] that, though he...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: When All Else Fails

...mistakenly convicted. It means you could kill cops in a situation like the Rodney King beating. It means you could assassinate democratic executives who are about to launch unjust wars...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Neoliberalism’s Demons

...to presuppose some reference to God. Familiarity with political theol- ogy as it has conventionally been practiced would reinforce that association. Schmitt’s Political Theology and Kantorowicz’s The King’s Two Bodies...

Black Issues in Philosophy: An Interview with Donna Edmonds Mitchell

...ways into the present. While the largest museum in the U.S. dedicated to Native peoples is based in Connecticut and many people have heard of the King Phillip’s War, many...

Black Issues in Philosophy: Dwayne Tunstall as Africana Philosopher

...to Martin Luther King’s articulation of agape or the Beloved Community. He notes that there is a tension in King’s conception of agape between the belief that it can only...

How to Disagree, or Experiments in Social Construction

...a session of the Moral Inquiries, Where Do We Go From Here, Today? – revisiting Dr. King’s last and untimely book.  Although uneasy about the possibility of a triennial and...

The Ugly Truth of Being a Black Professor in America

...same way Martin King was a PHD and the same way that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are ‘Reverends’: Just another jive assed nigger with a new way to pimp....

What Are You Reading…On Belief

...King Henry VIII) have seen England consumed by violence as the Protestants and Catholics fight it out. Oliver Cromwell, for instance, is depicted as a man of deep religious conviction,...