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Khoren Arisian

Khoren Arisian is senior leader of the New York Society for Ethical Culture. He graduated from Tuffs University at age 21 in 1954. He was director and co-founder of the Ethical Culture School of Adult Education, a member of the Chaplaincy Task Force for the New York Board of Corrections, and a founder of the New York Society’s Prison Reform Task Force.

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Religious zealotry and the crisis of American democracy

The danger of religious fundamentalism has been present in the American political bloodstream since the arrival of the Puritans. Now, with a government of religious conservatives locked in a polarising mindset of us-them and good-evil, the threat it poses is not just to American freedom, but to the world’s.