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David Foster Wallace: Genius?

April 9, 2021April 13, 2021
Samuel Liu on David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace had, in the best and worst sense of this word, a divine compulsion, a ... [Read More]

Storytelling In Indo-Persian Literary Traditions

April 9, 2021April 11, 2021
Aqsa Ijaz on Pasha Mohamad Khan and Tony K. Stewart A society should turn the young into the heirs of history rather than ... [Read More]

The Alchemy of Tuvia Ruebner’s Poetry

April 9, 2021April 19, 2021
Michael Heller on Tuvia Ruebner Tuvia Ruebner is a surviving member of that brilliant generation of Israeli poets, including Yehuda Amichai, Dan Pagis ... [Read More]

When Truth Finds A Home: In The Shelter by Pádraig Ó Tuama

March 26, 2021April 1, 2021
Alexandra Barylski on Pádraig Ó Tuama This is a book about truth. A book about facing the truth of your own life and ... [Read More]

Why Philo Matters

March 26, 2021March 26, 2021
Gregory E. Sterling on Philo of Alexandria “What should I say about Philo whom critics call…the ‘Jewish Plato’?” So said Saint Jerome, who ... [Read More]

America’s Most Cherished and Controversial Right

March 26, 2021
Ryan T. Woods on Free Speech Of all our democratic values, Americans are most devoted to free speech. A 2015 Rasmussen poll revealed ... [Read More]

In Defense of Childhood

March 12, 2021March 12, 2021
Sammy Kelner on teens, adults, and technology In 1982, Neil Postman argued that the idea of childhood was being destroyed. So too, the ... [Read More]

When Secular Laws and Religious Convictions Collide

March 12, 2021March 12, 2021
Perry Dane on religious freedom, current conflicts, and Martin Buber The recent challenges by some churches and synagogues to COVID related state restrictions ... [Read More]

The Conflict: Israel and Palestine

March 12, 2021March 12, 2021
Joshua Shanes on Kenneth S. Stern Rightwing lawmakers and other outside actors have sought to “protect” Jewish students from the threat of antisemitic ... [Read More]

The Christian Origins of Racism

February 26, 2021February 26, 2021
M. Lindsay Kaplan on Antisemitism to Racism Medieval claims about the Jews’ criminal role in the crucifixion consigned them to an enslaved status, ... [Read More]

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