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MICHAEL BURDETT | On February 23, 2012, in the Sheldonian Theatre at the University of Oxford, two figureheads of Modern Britain debated a topic fit for the location...

NIGEL BIGGAR | The reasons for my fascination with war are partly autobiographical...

JAMES LOEFFLER | Only one of the thousands of UN resolutions issued by the General Assembly has ever been formally revoked: the infamous GA Resolution 3379, passed on November 10, 1975...

BRADLEY M. PEPER | The late David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), arguably one of the most innovative and poignant literary voices of the last twenty-five years, was instrumental in the formation of “New Sincerity.”...

PAUL L. HECK | Ibn Hazm of Cordoba, pious scholar and littérateur of eleventh-century Andalusia, may not be well known, but his ideas certainly generate controversy...

EDDY PORTNOY | Efn a zeml un aroys shpringt a yid is a Yiddish expression that conveys that no matter where you go, you’ll find a Jew...

NICK RIPATRAZONE | In “Parker’s Back,” the titular character decides to get a new tattoo to please his fundamentalist wife...

BARBARA MUJICA | An extraordinary sum of Passion-related texts and images produced in late medieval Europe put Christ’s humanity and suffering at the center of devotional life...

YOEL FINKELMAN | There is no way to understand the fraught relationship between religion, Zionism, and Israeli culture without understanding how Religious Zionists talk and teach about sex and bodies...

DAVID W. STOWE | Psalm 137 is one of the more ubiquitous psalms in contemporary popular culture, but few who stumble upon its phrases would recognize it as a Hebrew psalm...

ARTHUR REMILLARD | The Pittsburgh Steelers nearly broke Terry O’Neill’s heart...

CHARLES HALTON | I remember the first time I heard the C-word used to translate the Bible...