Politics and Anti-Politics
Michael Walzer asks new questions of the biblical text, the same sorts of questions we often ask of Locke or Voltaire.
Pro-Creation
Economist Bryan Caplan thinks parents “overcharge” themselves when it comes to investing in their children. Glückel of Hameln knew better.
Remembering the Forgotten
Historian Bernard Wasserstein narrates Jewish life in Europe between the world wars.
Spinoza in Shtreimels: An Underground Seminar
A professor and three Hasidim walk into a bar—to study philosophy. True story.
Spy vs. Spy
Beginning in 1940 the French and the Zionists had a common enemy—the British.
Tough Bananas
A rags-to-riches tale with a machete-swinging Jewish hero.
Where Abraham Walked
Preserved for centuries by Syrian Christians, spoken-Aramaic is now breathing its last.
A Neoplatonic Affair
As the tapestry of Hillel Halkin's first novel unfurls, we see how perfectly each part fits into the larger pattern.
Are We All Protestants Now?
Leora Batnitzky's new book charts the development of modern Jewish thought.
Before the Big Bang
Cosmologist Lawrence Krauss is quite sure he knows how the universe began. Novelist Alan Lightman takes a wild narrative guess. But where does the Kabbalah stand?