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ESSAYS

This is a snippet of William’s numerous essays.

  1. A Friendly Letter to the Americans
  2. A Note on Edward W. Said
  3. Al-Hallaj
  4. Albert Einstein: A Prophet of Science
  5. Beauty and Goodness
  6. Beethoven: A Musician of Liberty
  7. Bertrand Russell
  8. Celtic Spirituality and the New Age
  9. China’s Communist Party
  10.  Christianity and Islam: The Dilemma of Justice
  11.  Christianity and Islam: Toward a Civilizational Dialogue
  12.  Christianity and Politics
  13.  Daniel O’Connell and the Struggle for Catholic Emancipation
  14.  Dictatorship in the Arab World
  15.  Ecology and Philosophy
  16.  Edward Said and the Intellectual
  17.  Eidetic Intuition
  18.  Engaging the Unengaged
  19.  Fascism in Syria
  20.  Flavian’s Letter of Appeal to Leo
  21.  Food and Happiness
  22.  Food and Health
  23.  Freedom and Marriage
  24.  God in Ancient Times
  25.  Hindu Renunciation
  26.  Hindutva
  27.  In China
  28.  Is the Catholic Pope Infallible?
  29.  Is Zionism a Liberation Movement?
  30.  Islam, Democracy and Human Rights
  31.  Jesus and Politics
  32.  Kwame Anthony Appiah
  33.  Leo Tolstoy’s Ethics
  34.  Liberalism and Religion
  35.  Meeting Abdus Salam
  36.  Meeting Edward Said
  37.  Meeting Noam Chomsky
  38.  Meeting the Pope
  39.  Memories from Hong Kong
  40.  Men’s Massacres in Lebanon
  41.  Men’s Wars
  42.  Montanism
  43.  Moral Guidance in Buddhism and Islam
  44.  Morality and Religion
  45.  Muslim Views on Jihad
  46.  My Life in Rome
  47.  My Life with a Lesbian
  48.  New York As I Knew
  49.  Nietzsche
  50.  Okot p’Bitek
  51.  On Creativity
  52.  On Ideology
  53.  On Leadership
  54.  Orientalism and Indian Studies
  55.  Philosophy and Science
  56.  Reflections from the Himalayas
  57.  Religion and Individual Lifestyle Choice
  58.  Remembering Bertrand Russell
  59.  Russia’s Great Literature in the Nineteenth Century
  60.  Samson Raphael Hirsch
  61.  Saudi Islam and Political Protest
  62.  Secular Criticism
  63.  Sex and Gender in Hinduism and Buddhism
  64.  Sir James Frazer
  65.  Soka Gakkai: Universalism and Accommodation
  66.  Spirituality and the New Age
  67.  Starving Children
  68.  Superficial Health
  69.  The Big Pharma and Politics
  70.  The Climate Crisis
  71.  The Creed of Constantinople I
  72.  The Decrees of Ephesus
  73.  The Earth and the Universe
  74.  The Ecological Crisis and World Politics
  75.  The Egyptian Goddess Isis
  76.  The Ethics of Buddhism
  77.  The Evolution of Feminism in Egypt
  78.  The Evolution of Pyramids in the Old Kingdom
  79.  The Fallacy of Atheism
  80.  The Future of India
  81.  The Gulf War
  82.  The Islamic Concept of Prophecy and Revelation
  83.  The Meaning of Life
  84.  The “Middle Way” of Buddhism
  85.  The Montanists
  86.  The Muslim Brothers
  87.  The Myths of Cosmology
  88.  The Myths of Science
  89.  The New Age
  90.  The Peace Process in the Middle East
  91.  The Penis and Men’s  Violence
  92.  The Quran: A Scripture and Historical Text
  93.  The Quranic Text
  94.  The Representation of Islam in Culture and Politics
  95.  The “Sacred Space” in Jewish and Islamic Traditions
  96.  The Schism Between the Greek and Latin Churches
  97.  The Soviet Union’s Crimes in Afghanistan
  98.  The Study of African Religions
  99.  The Value of Democracy
  100.  The Value of Mathematics
  101.  The Value of Philosophy
  102. The Value of Reading
  103. The World: A Wilderness of Values
  104. War: A Game of the Powerful
  105. We and India
  106. Why I Left Religion
  107. Witch-Hunting in the Early Modern Period
  108. Witchcraft and the Persecution of Women
  109. With the Sinn Féin
  110. Women in Medieval Europe