Israel and Palestine in the Age of Trump
Yair Wallach on Seth Anziska In early June 2018, in an interview to the BBC in London, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed relaxed
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Is All Forgiven? Democracy and Memory in Post-Genocide Rwanda
J.J. Carney on Timothy Longman In 2018, my family enjoyed a lovely Christmas in Rwanda. Although I had conducted research in Rwanda on
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Trump and the Specter of Christian Withdrawal
Jonathan Tran on James K. A. Smith’s Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology. The Trump presidency provides a kind of Rorschach test for
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A Blur of Wings: The Diaphanous and the Dissonant in Political Poetry
Ciahnan Darrell reviews Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings is aggressively opaque. Written in a multitude of poetic forms, it draws
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“The Rights and Wrongs of Resistance”: Shakespeare and Politics
Andrew S. Brown on Peter Lake’s How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage On February 7, 1601, William Shakespeare was enlisted into a
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Beyond Borders: America, Immigration, and the Future of Information
Editor Samuel Loncar’s Vision for Freedom and Depth in the Digital Age What defines us is not our leaders or our borders. A
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Impolite Conversation #19: Religion and Politics in Contemporary China
On this month’s Impolite Conversation, our friend Courtney Bruntz stops by the studio to talk us through which forms of religion are legal
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Impolite Conversation #18: Waging War on Christmas and Hanukkah
On this episode of Impolite Conversation, Tim and Dan get into the holiday spirit by talking about the alleged war on Christmas with historian
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Impolite Conversation: Election Results 2016
Will there be a difference between Trump the candidate and Trump the president? In this Impolite Conversation Supplemental, Dan and Tim talk (and
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Religion, Conservatism, and American Public Life: 2016 – by Benjamin Rolsky
Is Trump Archie Bunker? With less than a week before the election, political pundits and academic commentators are scrambling for the latest polling
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