Shakespeare Contra Nietzsche by Andrew Lanham
In the 400 years since Shakespeare’s death, one of his most influential afterlives has been in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, who thought
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Essays
Freud and the American Death Drive by Patrick Blanchfield
If ever a person could kill a joke, it was Sigmund Freud. “Here is an American anecdote: ‘Two not particularly scrupulous businessmen had
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Thomas Merton and the Future of Faith – By Christopher Pramuk
Merton dares us to imagine what is possible for God and for human beings In August of 1938, a young graduate student at
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A Word on Wilderness… By Oluwatomisin Oredein
A poem by Oluwatomisin Oredein She didn’t want wilderness to be this spirited thing. No, she was too wise for that, too aware
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Silence Won’t Protect You
Kelly J. Baker on academic freedom and the neoliberal academy Almost 39 years ago, Audre Lorde gave a talk on silence, language, and
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Monumental Problems: Freedom and Unity Come to Berlin – Daniela Blei
On April 13, 2011, Bernd Neumann, Germany’s Minister of Culture and a member of Angela Merkel’s ruling center-right party, made an announcement. After
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It is Time for the Analytic Philosophy of Judaism – By Samuel Lebens
Ask a professional philosopher to list three living philosophers who have contributed to Jewish philosophy. They will struggle. Jewish thought, in recent years,
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An Ex-Soviet Jew Looks at Syrian Refugees and America – by Margaret Litvin
Margaret Litvin on why there are no chosen peoples, only people making choices. If you embrace neither religion nor nationalism, you aren’t left
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Reflections on the Nation-State Debate
Ruth Gavison reflects on the Defining Israel forum and the insights of Israel’s Declaration of Independence [The home page for Defining Israel: A Forum
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On the Essence of the State of Israel
Ze’ev B. Begin on why the time has come to enshrine the essence of the state of Israel in a basic law [The home
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