The Pursuit of Kierkegaardian Virtue
Thomas J. Millay on Sylvia Walsh In November of 2013, Sylvia Walsh delivered a lecture on Kierkegaard and virtue at Baylor University that
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James Wood and The Visionless Age
Samuel Liu on James Wood’s Serious Noticing Perhaps there is no essay by James Wood more thrilling than his piece on metaphor in
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The Ethnocentrism of Science: Race, Biology, and Bigoted Fictions
Matthew Mutter on Charles King Near the end of Gods of the Upper Air, Charles King plucks a 1958 letter from Margaret Mead’s
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Hasidism Forum: A New History
Hasidism: A Forum This forum is dedicated to our friend and colleague Professor Tzippi Kauffman who left this world much too early. She
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Blood Libel: Why is Facebook Permitting Antisemitism?
Paul Franks on Facebook’s Refusal to Remove Hate Speech On 24th March 2020, the Italian artist Giovanni Gasparro posted pictures on Facebook of
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A Muslim Reflection on COVID-19
Asad Dandia on Faith and COVID-19 In response to COVID-19, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order announcing that all businesses
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How The Working Class Became Children: The Politics of Kindness in A Victorian Novel
Karen Swallow Prior on Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty March 30 marks the 200th birthday of Anna Sewell, whose only published work, Black Beauty,
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Are Humans in Crisis? The Becoming Human Podcast
MRB Interviews Editor, Samuel Loncar, about Becoming Human MRB: Your new show is called, Becoming Human: A Podcast for a Species in Crisis.
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Islamic Art History: The Myth of Secularity
Wendy M.K. Shaw in Conversation Art history is often presented as a field cleansed of religious impulses during the process of modernity. This
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Digital Piety: The Eucharist in COVID-19
Editor’s Note: In times of crisis, many people turn to religion. In our time of trial, religion itself must shut its physical doors
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