Nadia Urbinati, a specialist on liberal and socialist thought, took her doctorate at the European University Institute in Florence and has taught at New York, Pennsylvania, Princeton and now Columbia Universities. Her book Mill on democracy was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2002.

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The novel feature of the new terrorism is its religious character. The challenge this presents to democracy is a linguistic as well as a security one. For the imprecision of the language we use to address it – especially that of good and evil – carries the danger of internalising an anti-political threat to our values. To avoid this, we must both focus on the specific, and reaffirm the secular, public sphere as the common ground of democratic concern.