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PHILLIP LUKE SINITIERE | Recent panel discussions, colloquia, documentaries, and books have been celebrating pivotal moments in the modern Civil Rights Movement at its half-century mark...

CLARK ELLISTON | The popularity of the fantasy genre, perhaps more than any other medium, illustrates the human desire for transcendence...

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...

JAMES MCGRATH | Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy explores the human potential to use science to redefine what it means to be human...

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

DAVID LINCICUM | When John Mearsheimer investigated lying in international politics, what he found surprised him...

ISHAY ROSEN-ZVI | Pinchas Kehati used to say that he toiled doubly over his popular commentary on the Mishnah, the cornerstone of classical rabbinic literature...

EVA KIESELE | Confusion often precedes the discovery of truth...

VLADIMIR LEVIN | Building a Public Judaism offers a fascinating journey to Jewish communities in four European capital cities in the second half of the nineteenth century...

WHITNEY S. BODMAN | I appreciate the effort involved in Rachel Friedman’s review of my new book, but I would like to elaborate on reader-response theory as a justifiable method in the study of the Qur’an...

JAMES HIGDON | When I started working on the book that would become The Cornbread Mafia, I never thought that I would be telling a story of God’s law versus Man’s law...

JOSHUA DUBLER | My project was initially slated to take place at New Jersey’s Rahway State Prison...