Ian Buruma
Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism, Bard College
Ian Buruma writes about politics and culture for a variety of major publications—most frequently for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Corriere della Sera, The Financial Times, and The Guardian. He has served as cultural editor of The Far Eastern Economic Review and Foreign Editor of The Spectator, and in 2008 he was awarded the Erasmus Prize for his "especially important
contribution to culture, society or social science in Europe." He is currently the Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College. His most recent book, "Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents" was published by Princeton university Press in March, 2010.
Many Muslims feel excluded from Europe’s political process, yet the internal divisions of Islam have prevented believers from making common cause.
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How America’s Tea Party movement connects to the larger anxieties about globalization.
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Looking for a model of successful multiculturalism? You could do worse than former European colonies such as India and Indonesia.
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If the French political thinker and historian returned to the modern-day U.S., he would find that some of his most pessimistic predictions have come true.
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The history of religion and immigration in the U.S. has made us more receptive to outside faiths. But, of course, our true religion is entrepreneurship.
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“People see religion as a challenge again to liberalism and democracy.” The “Taming the Gods” author sees that issue as grist for writing.
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Will fears about fundamentalist Islam spark a European version of America’s “Christian right?”
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A conversation with the Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College.
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