Spying on Congress, and Leaders of Allied Nations, Is an Abuse of Executive Power
“The kind of conduct we see in third-world countries.”
January 4, 2016
Melding Analytical Philosophy with Jewish Theology
In a religion that eschews doctrine.
To the extent that Jewish theologians are engaged with contemporary academic philosophy, they tend to favor the “Continental” approach rooted in the French and German philosophical traditions. Samuel Lebens calls on Jewish thinkers instead to apply the methods of “analytical” philosophers—those thinkers, mostly English-speaking, whose work is based on formal logic, precise language, and basic concepts. He admits this sounds counterintuitive:
January 4, 2016
Is the Coarsening of Political Discourse Connected with the Decline of Religion?
When politics takes the place of religion, the stakes change.
The Twilight of the Jewish Lower East Side
A view without nostalgia.
Pharaoh versus the Heroic Midwives
They refused to see human procreation in purely naturalistic terms.
Melding Analytical Philosophy with Jewish Theology
In a religion that eschews doctrine.