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JAN BURZLAFF | Kaplan writes about people trying to stay human in inhuman conditions, of the psychic architecture required to withstand endless deferral...

TIM O'LEARY | If we want to make progress towards perceiving Paul with historical accuracy, Mathew Novenson argues in Paul and Judaism: At the End of History, then we must try to identify the source of all this confusion...

KELLY M.S. SWOPE | The task for the poet of hard times is to look into the deepest part of the night without recoiling at what he sees...

DENNIS SCHULTING | To be is to be intelligible, to be knowable. Being itself is logos, spirit, or a self-knowing...

BENJAMIN BALL | Freedom, generosity, all of these core tenets of liberalism are already embedded in what it means to do democracy well...

DANIEL WOOLF | Nostalgia does not deserve its somewhat bad reputation as misguided sentimentality, or as a fetishistic celebration of ...

JOSHUA RICHARDSON | De Regt’s central theory is psychologistic, meaning that it emphasizes the subjective, psychological role...

AVRAHAM ORIAH KELMAN | Prophetic visions, vast accounts of reincarnations, mythic conceptions of cyclical time, and messianic aspirations—

AQSA IJAZ | the story of Majnun and his maddening love for his young school mate Layla has inspired artists in most powerful ways. Whether t

MICHAEL HOBERMAN | The new nation that early American Jews helped to create wasn’t the fulfillment of a preexisting ideal or a club . . .

STEVEN E. ASCHHEIM | Time’s Echo is about the painful but also potentially liberating interactions between culture and catastrophe.

DANIEL WOOLF | Apart from the stories she tells, Bakewell builds a case for remembering—even in the shadow of Auschwitz, Rwanda, 9/11. . .