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ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | There is a long tradition, of course, of writing for lay audiences about science...

MICHAEL HOBERMAN | The new nation that early American Jews helped to create wasn’t the fulfillment of a preexisting ideal or a club . . .

ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI | Her poetry often renders the familiar close to the strange and places the domestic beside the wild...

PAUL GRIFFITHS | In a time of intractable political division in America, it’s instructive to observe what unites those on both sides of...

GARY A. RENDSBURG | I am a strong supporter of Israel and a great admirer of its manifold accomplishments in its 71 years of independence...

ELISSA BEMPORAD | Well-known scholars of Soviet history have failed to understand Jewish experience under communism in the early...

ALEXANDER EARL | If there is one word that captures the situation of “the West” it is crisis...

JACOB ABOLAFIA | At the very center of his mid-career masterpiece The Counterlife, Philip Roth depicts an argument between the novel’s...

ERIN FAIGIN | Associating Catholicism with monarchy and despotism, he believed in the promise of Protestant theology to advance American...

DAN GROSSMAN | Why aren’t literary critics on the nightly news?...

CIAHNAN DARRELL | When I was twenty years old, I was attacked by a group of people outside a nightclub...

ABRAM LUEDERS | In 1995, Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam sounded the alarm...