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Decolonizing Philosophy: Samuel Loncar Interviews Carlos Fraenkel and Peter Adamson about Islam, Reason, and Religion

December 21, 2018December 21, 2018

We think of philosophy today as an austere, secular, and narrowly academic enterprise. Because of its secularity and associations with atheism, many religious ... [Read More]

The Wandering You: Jewish & American Identity

November 23, 2018

Erin Faigin on Shari Rabin’s Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America It was the opinion of Edwards, that the ... [Read More]

Antisemitism Is Our Problem

October 28, 2018October 28, 2018

Editor Samuel Loncar Reflects on Christianity’s Antisemitic Legacy Tree of Life Synagogue Daniel Stein Joyce Fienberg Richard Gottfried Rose Mallinger Jerry Rabinowitz brothers, ... [Read More]

How Toni Morrison Hunts the White Whale

August 17, 2018August 17, 2018

Dan Grossman on Toni Morrison’s The Origin of Others Why aren’t literary critics on the nightly news? America has become a battleground over what ... [Read More]

A Blur of Wings: The Diaphanous and the Dissonant in Political Poetry

April 13, 2018April 13, 2018

Ciahnan Darrell reviews Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings is aggressively opaque. Written in a multitude of poetic forms, it draws ... [Read More]

Beyond Borders: America, Immigration, and the Future of Information

February 2, 2018April 19, 2018

Editor Samuel Loncar’s Vision for Freedom and Depth in the Digital Age What defines us is not our leaders or our borders. A ... [Read More]

The Atrocity of Sunsets: Sixty Days in Guatemala

December 5, 2017December 8, 2017

There are more greens in this world than the eye can see, and between Lake Izabal and the Gulf of Honduras they ascend ... [Read More]

Does Jewish Logic Necessarily Lead to Israel?

November 24, 2017January 3, 2018

Jacob Abolafia on the existential and political character of 20th-century American Jewish life O you youths, western youths, So impatient, full of action, ... [Read More]

I Am Not Your Negro: A Review

April 10, 2017April 17, 2017

Ciahnan Darrell on race in America The lie called race makes Judases of us all, bleeding the human until all that remains is ... [Read More]

Freud and the American Death Drive by Patrick Blanchfield

May 7, 2016May 7, 2016

If ever a person could kill a joke, it was Sigmund Freud. “Here is an American anecdote: ‘Two not particularly scrupulous businessmen had ... [Read More]