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The Highest Music: Socrates in Love
SAMUEL LONCAR | Socrates is so important, he is the measure by which we depict historically important individuals, beginning with Jesus of Nazareth...
Jun 1


The Ancient, Rabbinic Remedy for Dealing with Trickle-Truthers
YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | Trickle-truthing is a term for when someone responds to an allegation with a partial admission, and slowly increases the amount of truth in his or her response over time...
Jun 1


Marxist Modernism and the Crisis of Social Enlightenment: Gillian Rose, the Frankfurt School, and the Dialectic of Culture and Emancipation
NIGEL TUBBS | The members of the Frankfurt School were deeply interested in why social enlightenment failed in Europe...
May 18


The Mahabharata Trilogy: The Book of Killings
AMIT MAJMUDAR | Rama has periodic fits of weeping after his separation from Sita, and when he first discovers her kidnapping, he suffers...
Apr 6


Sovereignty in Ruins: Rethinking Inter-religious Intimacies in India and Sudan
NOAH SALOMON | The question of religious difference became the question of the long 20th century...
Mar 9


Print Culture, Kabbalah, and Popularizing Jewish Mysticism
AVRAHAM ORIAH KELMAN | Prophetic visions, vast accounts of reincarnations, mythic conceptions of cyclical time, and messianic aspirations—
Nov 22, 2024


The Outrage of Modernity: Loss of the Spiritual Self and the Rise of State Rule
ANAND VIVEK TANEJA | Those who would rule over the country and bring justice and order to it had first to rule themselves...
Oct 25, 2024


The Spirit of '76: A Jewish Perspective on the American Revolution
MICHAEL HOBERMAN | The new nation that early American Jews helped to create wasn’t the fulfillment of a preexisting ideal or a club . . .
Sep 27, 2024


A Forum on Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India
Slandering the Sacred by J. Barton Scott is a landmark study in the field of religion and South Asia. . .
Sep 13, 2024


Celebrating 7 Years of Our Human-Centered Vision
Summer 2024 | Celebrating 7 years of our human-centered vision.
Jun 21, 2024


Moral Decisions and Desired Outcomes: The Diverse Histories of Consequentialism
GIJS KRUIJTZER | Does the question of the origin of consequentialism matter to the question of how desirable a tool it is to us now?
Jun 7, 2024


Marilynne Robinson in the World of the Patriarchs
TIMOTHY LARSEN | For the Bible to speak to our world it has to be set in it, acknowledging the reality of the worst evils that befall us...
Mar 15, 2024
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