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The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton UP, 2010) documents
Maimonideanism, the intellectual culture inspired by Maimonides’ writings, has received much recent
Frank Wolff's ground-breaking Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration: The Transnational History of the
These are troubling days for the humanities. In response, a recent proliferation of works defending
Literary canons have come under fire for perpetuating privilege and exclusion. But some artists — in
Many histories of science have been written, but A New History of the Humanities (Oxford UP, 2014) o
In this episode of High Theory, Laura Wittman tells us about near death experiences. The central fea
Mostafa Minawi's Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire (Stanford Universi
Author L. M. Sacasas talks about the life, thought, and legacy of the Catholic priest, philosopher,
According to a famous prophetic report, “Whoever imitates a people becomes one of them.” What does “
In his new book, theologian Matthew Thomas takes on the big question of what the Apostle Paul means
Our Books in Dark Times series offered John this 2021 chance to speak with Lorraine Daston of the Ma
In Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche (Routledge, 2021), Dr. Gila Ashtor “s
We have been ruled long enough. It is time to govern ourselves. If we are to get past the Constituti
The election of Donald Trump in 2016 shocked and appalled a number of people, forcing a critical ree
Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first
All Souls College Oxford was one of the meeting points of English public intellectuals in the twenti
Today I talked to Steven Lukes about Émile Durkheim's classic The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions revolutionized the way philosophers and histor
David Bates, Catholic apologist and CS Lewis expert, reflects upon Lewis's conversion (how he was 's
