The Origin of Jewish American Literary Studies
Benjamin Schreier Resentful and tacit hostility persists as an enduring, though not particularly productive, academic affect. But I wonder if expressed antagonism—having principled
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Essays
Weimar’s Lost Existence: An Introduction to Heidegger
Samuel J. Loncar on Scholarship Out of Time PDF available here It’s coming, believe me, and soon. Of course it will not ‘improve’
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Does Religion Exist?
Aaron W. Hughes and Russell T. McCutcheon In the once well-known (and still cited) appendix to his 1912 book, A Psychological Study of
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Liberalism’s Interest in Theology
Evan F. Kuehn In 2013 I attended a dinner hosted by the Lumen Christi Institute, a center for Catholic thought adjacent to the
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Why Josephus Matters
Steve Mason on Flavius Josephus If we leave biblical and New Testament authors out of the frame, Flavius Josephus (37–100+ CE) was the
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Alexander Hamilton and American Paranoia
Andrew Porwancher on Alexander Hamilton and American Jewish Culture Marjorie Taylor Greene—a Congresswoman representing Georgia’s 14th District—made headlines earlier this year after a
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How Special Is Science?
Philip Ball on writing about science in the Covid-19 pandemic Science is special. Its central idea – collecting data about the real world,
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David Foster Wallace: Genius?
Samuel Liu on David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace had, in the best and worst sense of this word, a divine compulsion, a
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Why Philo Matters
Gregory E. Sterling on Philo of Alexandria “What should I say about Philo whom critics call…the ‘Jewish Plato’?” So said Saint Jerome, who
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America’s Most Cherished and Controversial Right
Ryan T. Woods on Free Speech Of all our democratic values, Americans are most devoted to free speech. A 2015 Rasmussen poll revealed
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