Austin Reid Albanese is a historian and writer based in Rochester, ...

We “discover” an obscure band only to run into people who’ve known about it for years. We read a book that appears to us as ...

Judaism once had a universalist vision, long before Christianity emerged as a distinct religion. What happened ...

Out of 25 countries, the United States was the only one where most people said their fellow citizens’ morality was generally bad, new research has found.A Pew Research Center report examining morality ...

In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Mike Huckabee, the Trump administration’s representative in Israel, was cross-examined as to what Israel expects to gain from its various wars. Carlson asked ...

When the angel urged me to eat,I ate. She was neither stern nor angry.Her spattered apron faced meat eye level, though I tried not to see.Later, dangling the dessert menubefore me as if encouraginga ...

It is the discipline of a community that has resolved not to rush human life past its own dignity. When such practices erode, ...

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Harari has a second key theme: the key to a healthy society is its capacity for self-correction. His model for self-­correction is the progress of science. When a theory is found to be inadequate, ...

In this particular dream, I was attending a panel on character in America, a fitting topic just before the presidential ...

Religious violenceI was quite taken aback by Anna Piela and Michael Woolf’s article (“The making of Islamophobia”). I want to ...

Religious violenceI was quite taken aback by Anna Piela and Michael Woolf’s article (“The making of Islamophobia,” February). I want to address some of its omissions and biases regarding European ...