Four questions to Will Kymlicka
While liberal values can be twisted to justify limiting civil rights, religious authorities may not replace civil law, argues Will Kymlicka. "The same forces that support ethnic politics within liberal democracy also operate over time to channel it in peaceful and democratic ways." [ more ]
"Critique & Humanism" takes a neighbourly view on Turkey; "dérive" doesn't play ball; "Reset" picks up the pieces after Veltroni's defeat; "Multitudes" joins the carnival; "The Hungarian Quarterly" finds the country in a gloomy mood; "Mittelweg 36" asks what's in a friendship; "Revista Crítica" reads epistemologies of the South; "Springerin" sees the provincial in the universal; "Kulturos barai" watches patriarchs fall; and "Cogito" casts a tragic hero for our times.
(b.1970) is an author and manager of the Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur. Her publications include Das nächste große Ding (2006) and Lexikon des Unwissens (2007).
War has always been the best means of suppressing decadence, with the soldier as the counterpart to the spoiled and softening civilian. The military's rejection of decadence, however, can be costly. [more]
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