Two Visions of Democracy

Last winter, Sign and Sight asked Pascal Bruckner, Ian Buruma, and Timothy Garton Ash: “Who should the West support: moderate Islamists like Tariq Ramadan, or Islamic dissidents like Ayaan Hirsi Ali?” The question sparked fierce debate across Europe. Dissent’s Paul Berman entered the argument with his April New Republic article, “Who’s Afraid of Tariq Ramadan?”

Now political theorist Nadia Urbinati and Dissent editor Michael Walzer weigh in on their competing views of liberalism, multiculturalism, and the question of Tariq Ramadan (see also ResetDOC).

Read Nadia Urbinati’s “Two Visions of Democracy”
Read Michael Walzer’s Response

Read Urbinati’s letter to Walzer (1)
Read Walzer’s letter to Urbinati (2)
Read Urbinati’s letter to Walzer (3)
Read Walzer’s letter to Urbinati (4)

Homepage and feature photo by Luke Robinson. This debate originally appeared in the Italian political journal Reset and Reset: Dialogues on Civilization. ©ResetDOC.