David Klion The American Jewish Left in Exile Those of us whose Jewishness isn’t tethered to Israel find ourselves increasingly at the margins of American Jewish life. Do we need our own institutions? January 28, 2024
Lauren Kane New Money In the late Middle Ages, an emergent merchant class was forced into both a social and spiritual reckoning. January 7, 2024
Gabriel Winslow-Yost ‘To Leave This World’ In his recent trilogy of films, Paul Schrader uses his signature device—a man in a room, arguing with himself—to study society’s sins. June 21, 2023
Tatiana Hollier Enheduanna’s Brutal Muse The poetry of the oldest known author, an Akkadian priestess in ancient Mesopotamia, transformed a goddess of fertility into a deity of destruction. February 16, 2023
Garry Wills ‘Don’t Call Me a Saint’ In her lifetime, Dorothy Day rejected canonization for herself. Now revived, this bad idea would only diminish the great founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. January 26, 2022
Adam Shatz Coltrane’s New ‘Love Supreme’ The studio version has long been recognized as the jazz saxophonist’s masterwork. But a recently unearthed live recording is nothing short of a revelation. October 7, 2021
Yardena Schwartz Irreconcilable Hebron The West Bank city has become ground zero of a century-long conflict—not in spite of its sacred history, but because of it. April 21, 2021
Richard Finkelstein Passover in Pictures Every year, Jews gather for the Seder to celebrate their deliverance from servitude and to answer the question: Why is this night different from all other nights? March 27, 2021
Michael Eric Dyson St. Paul’s Letter to America “After the Capitol offense, all thoughts of American exceptionalism should be dead,” says the apostle. “But you need not despair.” January 18, 2021
Menaka Guruswamy The ‘Love Jihad’ Myth Made Law The ruling Hindu nationalist party is using the state of Uttar Pradesh as a laboratory for its latest experiment in how far it can push anti-Muslim bigotry. December 11, 2020