At seventy-eight, decades after his contemporaries haveeither died or turned into nostalgia acts, Leonard Cohenis as popular as he’s ever been, with a chart-topping newalbum and songs like “Hallelujah
If he were alive today, what might Heidegger say about Halo, the popular video game franchise? What would Augustine think aboutAssassin’s Creed ? What could Maimonides teach us about Nintendo’s eponym
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"Lili Marlene," the unlikely anthem of The dramatic story of an iconic love song, World War II, cut across front lines and its three creators, and their lives under the ideological divides, unitin
In 1872, China—ravaged by poverty, population growth, and aggressive European armies—sent 120 boys to America to learn the secrets of Western innovation. They studied at New England’s finest schools a
Describes the experiences of a group of boys from China who were sent to New England’s finest schools to learn the ways of the West and return home to help modernize the Empire at the end of the 19th
‧ Unique histories: The United States and Israel are the only two countries that made chosenness the foundation of their national identities. Jews and Americans have long wrestled with this strange an
From the editors of Tablet magazine and the creators of the popular Unorthodox podcast, The Passover Haggadah is a modern spin on the traditional Haggadah, the story of the exodus recited at the Passo
