Art’s Progressive Politics: A New Public Sphere?
Donato Loia on David Joselit T he last forty years have seen a boom in academic studies. There are thousands of specialist books
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History
Chanted Prayers in Early Hasidism
Aubrey Glazer on Moshe Idel and Ariel Mayse “There’s blaze of light in every word, doesn’t matter which one you heard, the cold
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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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Façades of Faith: Reading Church Architecture
Vasileios Marinis on Allen Doig Church histories are rarely concerned with ecclesiastical buildings. Those of us who peruse such books have certainly noticed
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A New History of Orientalism
Richard Calis on Alexander Bevilacqua, Noel Malcolm, Simon Mills, and Jürgen Osterhammel How did Europeans conceptualize the peoples, cultures, and religions of the
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Apostate Women: The Sacrifice Doubt Demands
Katie Christine Gaddini on Ayala Fader My body betrayed me. It committed treason, until my mind stumbled after it and grabbed hold of
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James Baldwin: Witnessing in Dark Times
Jamil W. Drake on Eddie S. Glaude On May 16, 1969, James Baldwin appeared as a guest on the Dick Cavett Show. Live
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No Faith In Faith? Protestant Theology
Wesley Hill on Phillip Cary As my fellow student and I emerged into the fall air and traversed campus on the way back
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Monastic Reform in the 12th Century
Kevin Lord on Alison Beach The late eleventh and early twelfth centuries in the Holy Roman Empire were a period of dynamism and
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How Papal History Was Invented
Daniel Woolf on Stefan Bauer The papacy has survived heresy, schism, the Protestant Reformation, and internal challenges to papal authority—to say nothing of
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