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Lucas Swaine

Lucas Swaine is assistant professor of government at Dartmouth College. He is the author of The Liberal Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism (Columbia University Press, 2006). He has published articles in numerous journals, including Ethics, the Journal of Political Philosophy, and History of Political Thought.

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The Mohammed caricatures: liberalism vs Islam?

Liberals are on the defensive over the cartoon war. But they can champion their values in a way that reaches out to Muslims, says Lucas Swaine.