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YAEL RICE | In October 2016, during the final month of a fractious presidential election that saw the GOP contender...

WILL THEISS | In the tenth canto of the Inferno, the poet Dante and his guide Virgil make their way through the sixth circle of Hell...

The questions raised by Cynthia Baker’s terse, sophisticated intervention in Jew resonate in, with, and for Islam in numerous complex ways.

Calling someone a Jew is not a neutral act. In her new book, Cynthia Baker explains with exemplary clarity how for much of their history the term Jew and its adjacencies...

LAMIN SANNEH | The many attempts to explain what went wrong with the Muslim world, with its outbreaks of violent extremism against...

JACOB LABENDZ | “Trump is not Hitler.”...

THOMAS J. MILLAY | Any serious consideration of the story of Abraham and Isaac is bound to produce anxiety—perhaps even sleep deprivation...

RYAN SCHRAM | For many years, Vilaça has conducted ethnographic research among Wari’, whose villages lie in reservations in the...

NILE GREEN | Smartphone in hand, with a carefully trimmed beard and a constant eye on his Twitter account...

As Leopold Zunz once wrote, “Genuine scholarship is generative.”

When my nephew was about eight or so, he went to school one day and, upon returning home, announced, “I saw a Jew in school today.”

ANNETTE YOSHIKO REED | It is a potent time to rethink identity.