The essays in Mezukak Shivatayim pay tribute to Bernard Septimus’s writing and teaching, covering rabbinic culture, Jewish thought and literature, and Jewish communities in their Christian and Muslim contexts from the tenth to the twentieth centuries.
Harvey C. Mansfield traces the birth of modern political philosophy to Machiavelli’s brief on behalf of rational control... Læs mere
Today, pardons seem to be astonishingly broad and everywhere, with candidates promising pardons and presidents eagerly passing out... Læs mere
The Forgotten Home Front: Roger Marshutz’s Photographs of Pusan, South Korea, 1952–1954 offers both an official and... Læs mere
Eric Hobsbawm was one of the most influential historians of the twentieth century, as well as a globetrotting journalist embedded in activist... Læs mere
Universities are spaces for contemplation but also sociability and simply living. The University places materiality at the center of the institution’s... Læs mere
Mhaimbhat’s God at Play, or Li?acaritra, is a remarkable biography of the medieval religious figure Chakradhar Svami, consider by the Mahanubhavs to be an incarnation of the supreme god. The... Læs mere
Captive Minds is the definitive study of manipulation. Manipulation differs from other forms of deceit in that it aims to control people. Like coercion, it is a... Læs mere
Since at least WWII, presidents have cultivated private groups that market their shared foreign policy goals to an often-wary public.... Læs mere