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COMING TO AMERICA (AND TORONTO)

September 3, 2014 by Kenan Malik

The US and Canadian edition of The Quest for a Moral Compass will be published next week by Melville House. I am coming to New York and Toronto to promote it, mainly doing media interviews, but giving a few talks too: Friday, 12 September ‘The Quest for a Moral Compass’ Paduano Seminar New York University Stern School of Business Ethics Kauffman Management Centre 44 West Fourth Street 15.00 Details from the NYU Stern School. . Monday, 15 September ‘What does […]

Categories: Culture & Books, Kenan Malik • Tags: history of moral thought, kenan malik's books, talks

WHERE DO VALUES COME FROM?

June 17, 2014 by Kenan Malik

This is a (slightly edited) video of a talk I gave last month at London’s RSA entitled ‘Where do values come from?’. It explores some of the themes in my book The Quest for a Moral Compass. .

Categories: History, History of moral thought, Human, Philosophy & Ethics • Tags: ancient greece, ethics, history of moral thought, humanism, kenan malik's books, modernity, religion, talks

CALLING LONDON, EDINBURGH AND AMERICA

June 14, 2014 by Kenan Malik

News on talks that are coming up, possibly coming up and moving. . London My London Philosophy Club talk next week has been moved back from Thursday 19th (when England are playing Uruguay in the World Cup) to Tuesday 17th. I would have sacrificed football for philosophy but the organisers decided that it was not worth risking an empty room. However exciting it might be to listen to me talk of Confucius or Kant or Original Sin, it might be a […]

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ON THE ROAD

April 25, 2014 by Kenan Malik

I am giving a number of talks over the next couple of months, both about my new book The Quest for a Moral Compass and on other issues from freedom of expression to the Enlightenment. Do come along if you are able. . 3 May Belfast Free as a Bird? Belfast Exposed The Exchange Place 23 Donegall Street Belfast BT1 2FF 15.30-17.00 A discussion about artistic freedom of expression with Johnanna Schwartz, John Johnson, Sinead O’Donnell and myself. There will also […]

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WHY I AM AN ATHEIST – THE VIDEO

February 3, 2013 by Kenan Malik

. This is a video of a conversation I had with the sociologist and broadcaster Laurie Taylor on ‘Why I am an atheist’. It was one in a ‘daisy chain’ of discussions on belief organized by 5×15 at the Wellcome Collection in London in December. The daisy chain featured, as well as Laurie Taylor and myself, Laurie’s son Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA (and a fellow-panelist of mine on The Moral Maze), Nick Spencer, director of research at the religious think tank Theos, and Linda Woodhead, Professor of […]

Categories: Atheism & Religion • Tags: atheism, christianity, debates, laurie taylor, linda woodhead, matthew taylor, nick spencer, religion, religious freedom, talks, theos

MULTICULTURALISM: THE INTERVIEW

January 10, 2013 by Kenan Malik

I recently gave an interview for the Open University course on ‘Why is religion controversial?’. The interview is actually not about religion but about multiculturalism. It is somewhat oddly edited in places (a number of times, for instance, part of the answer to one question interpolated into the answer to another in a way that seems confusing), but still, I hope, it makes sense. Here anyway is the interview. Check out also my Milton K Wong lecture that I gave in Vancouver last […]

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ON EVIL

October 30, 2011 by Kenan Malik

I took part yesterday in a fascinating debate about evil at the Battle of Ideas with Mark Vernon (who has blogged about it), David Jones and Simon Baron Cohen. Here (slightly expanded) are my introductory comments to the debate. The historian Steven Shapin famously began his study of the Scientific Revolution with the sentence: ‘There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution and this is a book about it.’ I sometimes think that discussions of evil are infused with the […]

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