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28/06/2022 - 13:53

All the worst things we can imagine doing to Earth — nuclear war, climate change, massive pollution, habitat loss and all the rest —... →

20/06/2022 - 12:34

Lasker provides a basic introduction to Karaite history and the sect’s fundamental differences from Rabbinic Judaism, as well as their... →

15/06/2022 - 11:17

In The Sabbath (1951), Rabbi Abraham Heschel argued that, in Judaism, this day of rest was more than just a pause in the week, it... →

10/06/2022 - 16:01

Sustaining that support through this summer, though, will be doubly important as the Ukraine war settles into a kind of “sumo” phase — two... →

04/06/2022 - 12:29

The significant new revelations about Pius’ relationship with the Nazi regime contained in “The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII... →

29/05/2022 - 11:33

The joke turns, most obviously, on the tension between assimilated Jews and their sectarian counterparts, the same dynamic that inspired... →

22/05/2022 - 18:08

How do I love my cats? Let me count the ways. The clean snap of three-year-old Larry’s jaw as he contemplates me with detached curiosity is... →

15/05/2022 - 13:56

They watched for smoke coming from chimneys, because that might mean a family had hidden flour and was baking bread. They led away farm... →

04/05/2022 - 15:46

Yet despite ample scientific evidence to the contrary, there remains a sizable amount of support for the Flat Earth theory – as well as a... →

28/04/2022 - 13:39

But in the Kremlin, this blowback could in fact be seen as a longstanding domestic goal. After all, the conflict’s... →

17/04/2022 - 18:08

In each of these cases, nationalism has powered the rise of illiberalism. Illiberal leaders, their parties, and their allies have harnessed... →

12/04/2022 - 13:37

The spectrum of possible outcomes ranges from a volatile new cold or hot war involving the United States, Russia, and China; to a frozen... →

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