Latest Res Publica: special issue on Rethinking Democratic Decision-Making: Integrating Deliberation and Voting. A great line-up of papers and authors. Well worth a look: link.springer.com/journal/1115...

How should we understand events like the public Quran burnings in Denmark and Sweden and the Danish law passed to stop them? Can the realism/moralism distinction in political theory be applied to such cases? The answers to these questions are connected, I suggest: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My contribution to a review symposium on @tariqmodood.bsky.social and Thomas Sealy’s The New Governance of Religious Diversity has now been published, where I offer a criticism of their category of moderate secularism with Denmark as a case. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

All you ever wanted to ask about toleration! "Making Sense of Toleration" includes interviews about toleration with a terrific group of people, including Charles Taylor, Peter Jones, Thomas Scanlon, Rainer Forst, Tariq Modood, Anna Galeotti and Emanuela Ceva. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

What is the relation between empirical social science and normative political theory? - and if empirical data are relevant to normative arguments, which data? I discuss these questions with a focus on Jonathan Floyd's normative behaviorism and Tariq Modood's normative sociology. rdcu.be/eeqYw