“Living in the Shadows of the Dead”: Cathy Otten’s “With Ash on Their Faces”
Cathy Otten’s new book tells the tragic story of the Yezidi women taken captive by ISIS....
Inventing the Pogrom: Assigning Meaning to the Kishinev Massacre
How the word “pogrom” became one of the surprisingly few Russian words that have ever made it into English....
The Death Drive Revisited: On Olivier Roy’s “Jihad and Death”
"Jihad and Death" is a remarkable work of analysis that is spilling over with insights and well worth engaging....
On Jealousy: A Conversation Between Ilan Stavans and Max Page
Ilan Stavans and Max Page discuss the perils and virtues of jealousy....
Must Atheists Trash Religion?
On Tim Crane's "The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist’s Point of View."...
Holy Ambivalence
Do Christianity and liberalism have a future together in the United States? Brad East looks at two new books to find out....
Judaism Without a Temple: An Excerpt from Martin Goodman’s “A History of Judaism”
An excerpt from “A History of Judaism” by Martin Goodman, published this month by Princeton University Press....
How to Find God (on YouTube)
A new book on “network Christianity” might include some clues to the rise of Donald Trump....
The Grasp of the Real
Stephen Greenblatt’s "The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve" tells a gripping story of storytelling, a tale spun by the fortunes of one of the greatest stories....
Keeping the Darwinian Faith
A review of Michael Ruse’s book on the religion of scientism....
The Dead Do Not Improve: “The Good Place”’s Divine Justice System
What might NBC's sitcom "The Good Place" tell us about early Christian theology and the era of mass incarceration?...
From Conflict to Dialogue and All the Way Back. And Then Back Again.
Yves Gingras responds to Peter Harrison's review of his book "Science and Religion: An Impossible Dialogue," and Harrison offers a rebuttal....
