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Feb 9
Cultural Diversity and Scientific Truth: In Conversation with Philip Ball
PETER HARRISON | Unfortunately, the comforting narratives beloved by scientists fall well short of the standards of historical scholarship.


Feb 9
Hospitality and Hostility in Colonial South Asia
ELAINE FISHER | By pursuing this sort of boundary-crossing inquiry, we might come to better articulate how. . .

Nov 22, 2024
Print Culture, Kabbalah, and Popularizing Jewish Mysticism
AVRAHAM ORIAH KELMAN | Prophetic visions, vast accounts of reincarnations, mythic conceptions of cyclical time, and messianic aspirations—

Oct 25, 2024
The Outrage of Modernity: Loss of the Spiritual Self and the Rise of State Rule
ANAND VIVEK TANEJA | Those who would rule over the country and bring justice and order to it had first to rule themselves...

Sep 27, 2024
The Spirit of '76: A Jewish Perspective on the American Revolution
MICHAEL HOBERMAN | The new nation that early American Jews helped to create wasn’t the fulfillment of a preexisting ideal or a club . . .


Sep 13, 2024
A Forum on Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India
Slandering the Sacred by J. Barton Scott is a landmark study in the field of religion and South Asia. . .


Jun 21, 2024
Celebrating 7 Years of Our Human-Centered Vision
Summer 2024 | Celebrating 7 years of our human-centered vision.

Jun 7, 2024
Moral Decisions and Desired Outcomes: The Diverse Histories of Consequentialism
GIJS KRUIJTZER | Does the question of the origin of consequentialism matter to the question of how desirable a tool it is to us now?

Mar 15, 2024
Marilynne Robinson in the World of the Patriarchs
TIMOTHY LARSEN | For the Bible to speak to our world it has to be set in it, acknowledging the reality of the worst evils that befall us...

Mar 1, 2024
Sports in Jewish Culture
 IRA GLICK & NEIL EISENBERG | The Jewish problem with athletics literally arose in the locker room.


Feb 2, 2024
Greek Mathematics and the Origins of Science: A Conversation with Vittorio Hösle
VITTORIO HÖSLE | Long into the nineteenth century science and natural philosophy were connected, and that one of the great events in . . .

Feb 2, 2024
Philanthropy in Ancient Judaism and Why it Matters Today
SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ | Studying how ancient sources conceive and legislate wealth, poverty, and charity highlights the extent . . .
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