I moderated a panel at a recent conference on abortion at Princeton University that sought to bring voices from the prolife and prochoice sides together in the hope of finding common ground. Depending on whom you ask, the conference was either a fool’s errand or the beginning of a rapprochement in the abortion debate. More important, much of the conference was a reminder that (...)
March 25, 2011
Books
Out of the Shallows
The Disenchantment of Secular DiscourseSteven D. SmithHarvard University Press, $26.95, 304 pp.
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