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Terrence McNally: Life and Love Onstage

May 8, 2020May 9, 2020
John M. Clum on Raymond-Jean Frontain’s The Theater of Terrence McNally Playwright Terrence McNally, who died on March 24, was one of the ... [Read More]

The Inevitable Lies of Unorthodox

May 1, 2020
Shaul Magid on Netflix’s Unorthodox A Rosh Yeshiva (Yeshiva Dean) in Jerusalem once said to me, “One of the biggest problems with the yeshiva ... [Read More]

Grieving The Gods: Spirituality At The End of An Age

April 24, 2020
Keith Hackwood on Peter Kingsley Catafalque. A word to conjure with. Velvety on the tongue but dark and inclined downward somehow; formed in ... [Read More]

Are Evangelicals Their Own Worst Enemy?

April 24, 2020April 24, 2020
Audrey Farley on Thomas Kidd As the coronavirus pandemic intensifies across the world, so does blame for the failed efforts to contain the ... [Read More]

The Pursuit of Kierkegaardian Virtue

April 24, 2020April 24, 2020
Thomas J. Millay on Sylvia Walsh In November of 2013, Sylvia Walsh delivered a lecture on Kierkegaard and virtue at Baylor University that ... [Read More]

James Wood and The Visionless Age

April 10, 2020April 10, 2020
Samuel Liu on James Wood’s Serious Noticing Perhaps there is no essay by James Wood more thrilling than his piece on metaphor in ... [Read More]

The Ethnocentrism of Science: Race, Biology, and Bigoted Fictions

April 10, 2020April 15, 2020
Matthew Mutter on Charles King Near the end of Gods of the Upper Air, Charles King plucks a 1958 letter from Margaret Mead’s ... [Read More]

Hasidism Forum: A New History

April 10, 2020April 10, 2020
Hasidism: A Forum This forum is dedicated to our friend and colleague Professor Tzippi Kauffman who left this world much too early. She ... [Read More]

Blood Libel: Why is Facebook Permitting Antisemitism?

April 3, 2020April 3, 2020
Paul Franks on Facebook’s Refusal to Remove Hate Speech On 24th March 2020, the Italian artist Giovanni Gasparro posted pictures on Facebook of ... [Read More]

A Muslim Reflection on COVID-19

April 3, 2020April 4, 2020
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 ... [Read More]

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