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The Myth of Meritocracy
TIMOTHY LARSEN | Going into the Second World War, schooling was mandatory in Britain only up to age fourteen...
Oct 8, 2020


People of the Books: Qur'an and The Bible
STEPHEN BURGE | Gabriel Reynolds’ The Qur’an and the Bible: Text and Commentary, is a handsomely produced volume...
Oct 8, 2020


Demons and Western Psychology: The Unbounded Potential of The Monastic Mind
Daniel Eastman | How were Christian monks in the late antique Near East like modern cognitive psychologists?
May 21, 2020


Poetry for Grownups: The Responsible Self in Molly Spencer’s If the House
ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI | Her poetry often renders the familiar close to the strange and places the domestic beside the wild...
Dec 13, 2019


Climate Change in the First Age of Globalization
ABIGAIL AGRESTA | In 1961 Twilight Zone episode “The Midnight Sun,” a young artist struggles to survive in her New York apartment as the...
Dec 13, 2019


St. Paul and Islam: A Contemporary Perspective
MATTHEW V. NOVENSON | In this remarkable new commentary on the Letter of Paul to the Galatians, Shabbir Akhtar says that no Muslim has...
Nov 29, 2019


Is Capitalism Compatible with Christianity?
CHRISTINA MCRORIE | Capitalism and Christianity were not always at such odds...
Nov 29, 2019


Secularism as A New Religion
EVAN KUEHN | Many people take the idea as mere common sense: as societies advance, religion declines...
Nov 15, 2019


Islam and Chinese Tradition: Negotiating Muslim Identity
TIMOTHY GUTMANN | In recent years, Muslim communities in the People’s Republic of China have entered a new state of precarity...
Nov 15, 2019


Jews and The Red Scare: The Mythology of Judeo-Bolshevism
ELISSA BEMPORAD | Well-known scholars of Soviet history have failed to understand Jewish experience under communism in the early...
Oct 17, 2019


The Revival of Raced-Based Medicine: Eugenics, Religion, and the Black Experience
AUDREY FARLEY | In a 2018 Vogue magazine cover story, tennis star Serena Williams shared her harrowing experiences in the hospital...
Oct 17, 2019


Understanding the Arab World Between Language and Culture
LAWRENCE ROSEN | A civil war rages outside Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s window, trapping him in his Sana’a, Yemen home...
Oct 3, 2019
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