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ANDREW LANHAM | Physicists hypothesize something called a naked singularity, a black hole that spins so fast it breaks the laws of space and time and becomes visible...

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...

ROBERT E. BROWN | Martin Luther King, Jr. was the last great orator to use the Bible effectively in public discourse...

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...

WENDY E.S. NORTH | We search the Gospel of John in vain for the systematic presentation of ethical teaching that we find in the “Sermon on the Mount” in Matthew...

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...

YII-JAN LIN | Described by its own practitioners as anything from the drain clearer to the handmaiden, or even the Cinderella of literary studies, textual criticism may not be glamorous, but its defenders insist on its necessity...