Paolo Flores d'Arcais is a philosopher and the editor of MicroMega. His recent books include: Democrazia! Libertà privata e libertà in rivolta (ed. Add, Torino 2012), and La democrazia ha bisogno di Dio. Falso! (Laterza, Bari-Roma 2013).
Secularism is a matter of life and death for democracy. A matter of survival for both is now a crescendo of equal, political and material, power – one that can no longer be postponed.