Can the City Save Civic Life?
In 1995, Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam sounded the alarm. Americans were withdrawing from one another; the social and fraternal organizations that formed the bedrock
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Essays
Violence in Islam
Lamin Sanneh on Islam’s under-appreciated potential for peace What’s Wrong with Islam? The many attempts to explain what went wrong with the Muslim
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The Gorka Affair
Jacob Labendz on why two Jewish magazines went to war over a Trump appointee “Trump is not Hitler.” Over the past year, I
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God’s Business: Thinking About Religion Through Economics
Nile Green applies economic thinking to matters of faith Smartphone in hand, with a carefully trimmed beard and a constant eye on his
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The Crucified God: A Death in Pictures – by Ed Simon
Ed Simon asks, What’s so Good about Friday? “That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood – Again, in spite of that, we
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The Cure for Computation — By Audrey Borowski
Leibnizian Musings on Intellectual Automation Software has taken over our lives. From the phones we carry, the planes we fly, and the cars
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Why Sin is Good – By Ed Simon
Ed Simon on original sin for a secular age. Save a few prayers for poor Pelagius, footnote to theological history, whose name mostly
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Why The Election Of Trump Matters for Michelle Shirley – by Nikia Smith Robert
It could have been any one of us in that car on a fall day in southern California. October 31, 2016 in Torrence
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A Requiem for Leonard Cohen – by Elliot R. Wolfson
Elliot R. Wolfson says adieu to the master of erotic despair And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And
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Religion, Conservatism, and American Public Life: 2016 – by Benjamin Rolsky
Is Trump Archie Bunker? With less than a week before the election, political pundits and academic commentators are scrambling for the latest polling
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