Through our film project, Stand In My Shoes, we’re taking a hard look at empathy. We’re asking, how important is it? What are its limits, especially when pitted against the competing interest of self-preservation?..   There is a genuine sense of u…

Two thoughts: First, Buddhism tends to be the favorite religion of liberalism. No God. No sin. No judgmentalism. Plenty of consequences–karma and all, but I think that gets forgotten. Second, I am not a scientist, but it seems to me that these da…

Living with Uncertainty is a research fellowship project funded by the ESRC and AHRC as part of the wider RCUK Global Uncertainties Programme. www.globaluncertainties.org.uk Rationale for the project Increasingly mobile and transient societies present …

This empathy for religious sensibilities seems reserved almost exclusively for Muslims, even though progressives are supposedly all about inclusion. Jews and Christians – especially Christians – don’t qualify.The latest example is the…