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Why Tyrants Fear Speakers of Living Language
ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI | Language is in mortal peril, and we need to do something about it. The current trajectory of AI, left unchecked, will globalize the strongest weapon of colonialism...
Nov 10


The Nihilistic Crisis of the University
SAMUEL LONCAR | Nihilism is killing the university, and not for the first time. The Germany university was the crown jewel of European culture in the 19th-century, the pinnacle and vanguard of scientific progress, and the exemplar of what a wise partnership between state-funding and education could be...
Oct 26


The Enlightenment's Apocalypse: Harvard, Antisemitism, and the Future of Science
SAMUEL LONCAR | Supersessionism thus fights its enemy not with swords, destined to become ploughshares, but with time itself. The very nature of history is against the Jews, because they have not adapted to the new time inaugurated by Christianity...
Jul 27


Marxist Modernism and the Crisis of Social Enlightenment: Gillian Rose, the Frankfurt School, and the Dialectic of Culture and Emancipation
NIGEL TUBBS | The members of the Frankfurt School were deeply interested in why social enlightenment failed in Europe...
May 18


Who Speaks for Science? A Conversation with Erika Lorraine Milam
ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | There is a long tradition, of course, of writing for lay audiences about science...
Nov 8, 2024


The Spirit of '76: A Jewish Perspective on the American Revolution
MICHAEL HOBERMAN | The new nation that early American Jews helped to create wasn’t the fulfillment of a preexisting ideal or a club . . .
Sep 27, 2024


The Christian Origins of Racism
M. LINDSAY KAPLAN | The Jewish “crimes” of killing Jesus and rejecting their divinely imposed subordination develop in popular fictions into a menacing threat against contemporary Christians.
Feb 26, 2021


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


The Unity Death Yields: Assassination Through A Theologian’s Eyes
PAUL GRIFFITHS | In a time of intractable political division in America, it’s instructive to observe what unites those on both sides of...
Nov 15, 2019


Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Israel: A Plea for Consistency
GARY A. RENDSBURG | I am a strong supporter of Israel and a great admirer of its manifold accomplishments in its 71 years of independence...
Oct 31, 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


St. Augustine and The American Apocalypse
ALEXANDER EARL | If there is one word that captures the situation of “the West” it is crisis...
Sep 5, 2019
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