James Baldwin: Witnessing in Dark Times
Jamil W. Drake on Eddie S. Glaude On May 16, 1969, James Baldwin appeared as a guest on the Dick Cavett Show. Live
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Is Philosophy Magic? The Roots of Reason in Parmenides
Samuel Loncar on Peter Kingsley If you hate heresy, stop now. This is a story of illness, madness, and the end of what
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Ending Gender Violence: Africana Women’s Possibility and Power
Oluwatomisin Oredein on Traci West As a Nigerian-American woman my identity is liminal. I am often reminded that I am a Black woman,
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The Harvard Cheating Scandal Gone Global
Sammy Kelner on Education When students stop caring, so do teachers. Teachers are demoralized by cheating, and every attempt to correct what is
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Cultural Contradictions of the Nation State
Yehudah Mirsky on Alexander Kaye Alexander Kaye’s book stands at the confluence of three different scholarly traditions – the history of political thought
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Do We Need God For Happiness?
Timothy Larsen on Tanya M. Luhrmann When we get to Constantine the Great, my students often experience a fair amount of frustration. At
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The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: A Forum
The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: A Forum Contributors The Invention of Jewish Theocracy, Alexander Kaye (Brandeis University, Author) Israel: The Anglo-Jewish Origins of
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Inventing a Jewish Feminist Theocracy
Shayna Weiss on Alexander Kaye In Alexander Kaye’s masterful The Invention of Jewish Theocracy, we learn that Rabbi Isaac Herzog was especially concerned
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Israel: The Anglo-Jewish Origins of The Nation
David S. Katz on Alexander Kaye Professor Kaye begins his book with a quotation from Ya’akov Ne’eman (1939-2017), when just appointed again as
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No Faith In Faith? Protestant Theology
Wesley Hill on Phillip Cary As my fellow student and I emerged into the fall air and traversed campus on the way back
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