Machiavelli on the Potomac: What Will Donald Trump Do Now?

Machiavelli on the Potomac: What Will Donald Trump Do Now? Marcia Pally Religion & Ethics Friday 27 January 2017  Marcia Pally is a Professor at New York University in Multilingual Multicultural Studies and a permanent Fellow of the New York Institute […]

The tragedy and futility of Trumped-up solutions

The tragedy and futility of Trumped-up solutions  By Marcia Pally  Religion News Service, December 9, 2015 (RNS) Pigheadedness is on a roll. At the end of October, we were assured by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that harassing Muslims […]

We have a right to pigheaded ideas. Now what should we do? 

We have a right to pigheaded ideas. Now what should we do?  By Marcia Pally Religion News Service November 4, 2015 (RNS) We are very fortunate to have free speech rights. It allows us to say things others find sinful or […]

The Religious Re-direct: Religions and elections in America

The Religious Re-direct: Religions and elections in America By Marcia Pally Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 30, 2010  For over a century, religiosity in America has been greater, more committed, and more populist than in any other industrialized country. Though today, […]

Religion as practical scapegoat: A response from relational theology

Religion as practical scapegoat: A response from relational theology By Marcia Pally Presented at the German Federal Cultural Foundation Conference:  “Trial of Faith – On Religion and Growth,” Cologne June 12-14, 2015. https://www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de/en/magazine/magazine_24/the_practical_scapegoat.html Looking at European debates about religion, one […]

Muslims, Evangelicals and the Countering of Prejudice

Muslims, Evangelicals and the countering of prejudice: A conversation with Prof. Marcia Pally and Prof. Mustapha Tlili, New York University By Chantal Bax, April 2012 Muslims and Evangelicals – one may not think that these two groups have much in […]

Asymmetric Warfare: The First Three Thousand Years

 Asymmetric Warfare: The First Three Thousand Years By Marcia Pally  ·  Thursday, April 27, 2017 The thoughts below were first presented at the 2017 Telos Paul Piccone Institute conference, “Asymmetrical Warfare: The Centrality of the Political to the Strategic.”   On the perhaps naïve […]