Silence Won’t Protect You
Kelly J. Baker on academic freedom and the neoliberal academy Almost 39 years ago, Audre Lorde gave a talk on silence, language, and
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Essays
Monumental Problems: Freedom and Unity Come to Berlin – Daniela Blei
On April 13, 2011, Bernd Neumann, Germany’s Minister of Culture and a member of Angela Merkel’s ruling center-right party, made an announcement. After
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It is Time for the Analytic Philosophy of Judaism – By Samuel Lebens
Ask a professional philosopher to list three living philosophers who have contributed to Jewish philosophy. They will struggle. Jewish thought, in recent years,
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An Ex-Soviet Jew Looks at Syrian Refugees and America – by Margaret Litvin
Margaret Litvin on why there are no chosen peoples, only people making choices. If you embrace neither religion nor nationalism, you aren’t left
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The Hold: Or, Charleston USA (A Poem for the Emanuel 9)
J. Kameron Carter with a poetic commentary on the Charleston tragedy The Hold, or, Charleston USA (A Poem for the Emanuel 9) there’s
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The Skeptic’s Smart-Person Problem – By Ryan T. Woods
Ryan T. Woods on intelligence and religious belief Why are religious beliefs so common among the masses, yet so rare among intellectuals? Meditating on this question,
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He and We: What Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Sentence Will Tell Us about How We See Ourselves – By Anthony Santoro
Anthony Santoro offers some thoughts to consider while the jury deliberates on the fate of Tsarnaev A dozen years ago, in the fall of
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Reform, Relapse, Repeat: The Ongoing Beat of the Prison Industrial Complex – By Jason S. Sexton
Jason S. Sexton on reforming America’s prisons Mass incarceration has rarely featured in public debates about America’s most needed reforms. Although candidates ignored
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Job the German: A Mystery Play. – A Translation by Scott C. Jones
Scott C. Jones’s translation of Kurt Eggers’s Das Spiel von Job dem Deutschen. Ein Mysterium. Scott C. Jones’s Introduction Kurt Eggers’s Das Spiel von Job dem
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Das Spiel von Job dem Deutschen. Ein Mysterium. – By Kurt Eggers
Kurt Eggers’s Das Spiel von Job dem Deutschen. Ein Mysterium. Scott C. Jones’s Introduction Scott C. Jones’s Translation, Job the German: A Mystery Play. Berlin-Südende:
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