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The Myth of Meritocracy

October 9, 2020October 9, 2020
Timothy Larsen on Peter Mandler Peter Mandler’s truly impressive study, The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education since the Second ... [Read More]

People of The Books: Qur’an and The Bible

October 9, 2020October 9, 2020
Stephen Burge on Gabriel Reynolds Gabriel Reynolds’ The Qur’an and the Bible: Text and Commentary, is a handsomely produced volume, and an intriguing ... [Read More]

Why Teens Matter: The Voice of Gen-Z

September 25, 2020September 25, 2020
Managing Editor, Alexandra Barylski in conversation with Sammy Kelner, Contributing Editor for Teen MRB. At MRB, we believe teenagers are intelligent citizens capable ... [Read More]

The Secret Life of Saturn: Melancholia and the Warburg Institute

September 25, 2020September 30, 2020
P.S. Makhlouf on a classic reissued A pernicious threat looms on the horizon. If, following Marsilio Ficino’s prescriptions, you are sure to arise ... [Read More]

The Interim World: The Poetics of Tuvia Ruebner

September 25, 2020September 28, 2020
Rachel Tzvia Back on Tuvia Ruebner I’ve been intensely and intimately engaged with the poetry of Tuvia Ruebner as his English language translator ... [Read More]

The Trials and Tribulations of A New Jewish Canon

June 8, 2020June 8, 2020
Claire E. Sufrin and Yehuda Kurtzer on our relation to the past For five years, we have been working on a book project ... [Read More]

Racial Murder: American Memory, American Tragedy

June 5, 2020June 5, 2020
In light of recent events, we are republishing this piece written after the Charleston shooting on June 17, 2015. Samuel Loncar on America, ... [Read More]

Toward A Better Eternity: COVID-19 and The Recovery of Time

June 5, 2020
Ahmed Elbenni on COVID-19 Lately, I’ve taken to counting in Fridays. It’s been ten Fridays since the coronavirus made my body home and ... [Read More]

Demons and Western Psychology: The Unbounded Potential of The Monastic Mind

May 22, 2020
Daniel Eastman on Inbar Graiver How were Christian monks in the late antique Near East like modern cognitive psychologists? This question lies at ... [Read More]

On Myths and Moneylenders

May 22, 2020May 22, 2020
Rowan Dorin on The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender In the century following the Black Death, new Jewish communities sprang up in ... [Read More]

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