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In The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist (Duke UP, 2022), Sarah Imhoff tells the sto
Trust in government, media, organized religion, businesses and even democracy is at historic lows. B
What is religious liberty, anyway? What are its origins? What are religious exemptions? What would a
What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the
In 1982, the Institute held a multi day discussion of censorship. In this session from the Vault, so
Robin Vose (St. Thomas University) talks about his new monograph, The Index of Prohibited Books: Fou
Roma figures have been an essential part of European folklore, myths, and literary traditions for ce
Joseph Pearce, writer and literary scholar, leads us through CS Lewis’s theology on the afterlife an
In Reconstructing the Talmud: An Introduction to the Academic Study of Rabbinic Literature (Hadar Pr
In Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England (U Pennsylvania
16th-century glass mirrors and 21st-century camera phones actually share a lot in common; they both
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a Caribbean and African psychiatrist, philosopher and revolutionary who
Roosevelt Montás is Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Columbia University. A specia
After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, Lesley Higgins and Mar
In The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought (Ohio State UP, 2021), Profes
In 1983, ten years after W. H. Auden’s death, the New York Institute for the Humanities organized a
Matthew J Hart and Daniel J Hill's book Does God Intend that Sin Occur? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) a
Lorraine Daston, Rules: A Short History of What We Live by (Princeton UP, 2022).Historian of science
Seekers of the Face: Secrets of the Idra Rabba (the Great Assembly) of the Zohar (Stanford UP. 2021)
Jacob Neusner (born 1932) is one of the most important figures in the shaping of modern American Jud
