A few months back, I had an article on Søren Kierkegaard and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. published in The New York Times.. You can find it here. However, I’m extremely grateful (and flattered) that Anna Fioravanti from the Biblioteca Søren Kierkegaard in Argentina liked the article so much that she decided to translate it into Spanish. So, for any Spanish speakers out there, I hope you enjoy “El Lujo de la Moderación Política” (The Luxury of Political Moderation) courtesy of Anna Fioravanti, to whom I remain extremely grateful. Both the link and the full-text follow.
Read MoreI've been seeing a lot of people share some of their writing about MLK today, so at the risk of using today to sell books (but this is still America, right?), I thought I'd share a few paragraphs from the conclusion of my book. I don't claim to be an expert on MLK, but I've long thought that while he's obviously given credit as a moral exemplar and world-historical figure, he's not given the credit he deserves as a political theorist. And part of the reason might be that political theorists don't read Kierkegaard, or more broadly, that we don't always appreciate the importance of religious thought.
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