Does Jewish Logic Necessarily Lead to Israel?
Jacob Abolafia on the existential and political character of 20th-century American Jewish life O you youths, western youths, So impatient, full of action,
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Reviews
Performing Sacred Tragedies
A review of Rowan Williams, The Tragic Imagination. After he was shot and killed by police in 2014, Michael Brown’s body lay alone
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Grandpa Milbank
A review of John Milbank and Adrian Pabst’s The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Future. The afternoon that I began reading
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Fear of a Black Planet
On the Unbroken Tradition of White Supremacy in American Politics: A Review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ We Were Eight Years in Power I’m blacker than midnight
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The Trial of the Talmud
Anti-Judaism and the Talmud in Medieval French Society The thirteenth century was a tumultuous time for the Jews of France. New regulations limited
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Marketing Religion in the Roman Empire
Sarah E. Rollens reviews At the Temple Gates by Heidi Wendt In her new book At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance
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Figuring the Unknown
A review of Judith H. Anderson’s Light and Death: Figuration in Spenser, Kepler, Donne, Milton. In 1959, a British novelist and chemist named
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When Literature was Science
Clio Doyle reviews Claire Preston’s The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England Science was everywhere in the seventeenth century, especially in literature.
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How Christianity Killed the Pagan Gods
A review of Larry Hurtado’s Why on Earth Did Anyone Become a Christian in the First Three Centuries? and Destroyer of the gods:
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Neo-Latin Seizes its Day
A review of Victoria Moul’s edited collection A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature French departments do not lavish attention on the golden era of
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