Does Tenure Have a Future? An Open Forum edited by Peter Martens
Peter Martens introduces the series on tenure at MRB The tenure debate is no longer academic. For years impervious to pointed critique, tenure
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A Blessing on Your Head, and Other Ways to Deliver a Beating in Yiddish – By Simon Rabinovitch
Simon Rabinovitch on Yiddish Fight Club Yiddish is rich in the vocabulary of street-violence, taken from the ring, the docks, and the factories
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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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First Impressions #36: Allan Westphall
Dave Krueger talks with Allan Westphall about his book, Books and Religious Devotion: the Redemptive Reading of an Irishman in Nineteenth-Century New England. Westphall
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The Vibrant Religious Life of Silicon Valley, and Why It’s Killing the Economy
Samuel Loncar on Jaron Lanier’s Who Owns the Future? He even looks like a prophet. Well, how a prophet might look like in
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Spectres of the Real Paul and the Prospect of Pauline Scholarship – By T.J. Lang
T.J. Lang on Benjamin L. White’s Remembering Paul The fashionable dictum among historians today is that biographies do not repristinate their subjects “as
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Theology and the University: A Lover’s Quarrel – Jonathan D. Teubner
Jonathan D. Teubner on Johannes Zachhuber’s Theology as Science in Nineteenth-Century Germany “A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution,”
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Houellebecq’s Wager – By Bruno Chaouat
Bruno Chaouat on Michel Houellebecq’s Soumission Recently, French intellectuals have become interested in the unbearable lightness of being oneself, in the paradoxical burden of individual
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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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