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Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance
Elucidating complex ideas with engaging prose and storytelling, Reopening Muslim Minds borrows lost visions from medieval Muslim thinkers such as Ibn Rushd (aka Averroes), to offer a new Muslim worldview on a range of sensitive issues: human rights, equality for women, freedom of religion, or freedom from religion. While frankly acknowledging the problems in the world of Islam today, Akyol offers a clear and hopeful vision for its future.
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The Muslims Who Inspired Spinoza, Locke and Defoe
The way forward for the Islamic world lies in reconciling faith and reason.
Why We’re Keeping Hong Kong in Our Freedom Index
Ian Vásquez explains that the Human Freedom Index will continue to rank Hong Kong because its shift from former British colony to a special administrative region of China provides a unique case study.
It Is Time To Revive The Islamic Enlightenment
Today, Islam needs the kind of Enlightenment advocated by John Locke, who offered a new interpretation of Christianity—not a rejection of it—to save it from its own centuries‐old marriage with coercive power.
New Documentary on Modernization and Indigenous Tribes in India
Some 30 years ago, the Indian government displaced tens of thousands of families as part of its Sardar Sarovar Dam project. A new documentary now streaming on Disney+Hotstar shows how the relocated forest tribes have fared.
Neo‐Malthusianism and Coercive Population Control in China and India: Overpopulation Concerns Often Result in Coercion
Saving China’s Uighurs: Can Washington Do the Impossible?
Unfortunately America’s desire to redress injustice far outstrips our ability to do so.
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Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know
Think the world is getting worse? You’re wrong: the world is, for the most part, not getting worse. But 58 percent of folks in 17 countries that were surveyed in 2016 thought the world is either getting worse or staying the same rather than getting better. The uncontroversial data on major global trends in this book will persuade you that this dark view of the prospects for humanity and the natural world is, in large part, badly mistaken.