Truthdig - Tag - Karabell

	<a href='http://www.truthdig.com/banners/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a9cd87eb&cb=2084723353' target='_blank'><img src='http://www.truthdig.com/banners/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=1&cb=2084723353&n=a9cd87eb' border='0' alt='' /></a>	May 24, 2013
		Text Size

Trending: chris hedges economy elizabeth warren politics robert scheer

How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour

Colbert Slams PBS for Appeasing Koch Brothers

Obama Heckled During Speech, Warren Lands a Book Deal, and More

A Call to Action

After Oklahoma Disaster, Give Thanks to Government

After Oklahoma Disaster, Give Thanks to Government
By David Sirota

A Mission on Climate Change
By Eugene Robinson

More Exposés, Less Action
By Ralph Nader

Terracide and the Terrarists: Destroying the Planet for Record Profits
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch

Obama Heckled During Speech, Warren Lands a Book Deal, and More

Paul McCartney: Free Pussy Riot

Not-So-Happy Swedes Riot in Stockholm

Bizarre, Apparently Jihadist Slaying in London (Video)

Lawmaker Gives Atheist ‘Prayer,’ Glenn Beck’s Latest Controversial Comment, and More

U.S. Admits Drones Killed 4 Americans

Colbert Slams PBS for Appeasing Koch Brothers

Scahill on Obama’s Admitted Killings of Americans

Eric Holder Should Resign Over Spying, Editor of The Progressive Says

Watch: Sen. Warren Grills Jack Lew on Too Big to Fail Banks

How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour
By Nomi Prins

A Call to Action
By James Cromwell

‘SNL’: Stefon’s Farewell Features Anderson Cooper

Act of Congress
By Jesse Eisinger

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

Dig led by Truthdig Staff

Tag: Karabell

Zachary Karabell on the Middle East

What is it about the region that provokes intense sectarian passions, prompting seemingly endless vendettas? “Kingmakers,” by Karl Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac, tells the story of British and American entanglement and how the modern Middle East was invented. It also offers an exemplary history of hubris.

Posted on Aug 8, 2008 READ MORE | 48 COMMENTS

Zachary Karabell on Mark Lilla’s ‘The Stillborn God’

By Zachary Karabell —

With religious passions inflaming and complicating politics worldwide, the very project of a secular future is threatened. In “The Stillborn God,” Mark Lilla reveals the roots of the age-old quest to bring political life under God’s authority. He also explores how modern Western thinkers found a way to free politics from theological power and build barriers against destructive religious fanaticism.