Philosophy

Humanism, pessimism, and other philosophical questions.

John Gray
Dec. 13 2023 12:01AM

Politics, aesthetics, and tradition.

Ronen Shoval
Nov. 6 2023 12:01AM

How the Bible and Plato can prepare us for the high-tech future.

Oct. 18 2023 12:01AM

So suggests a recent guide “to humane, balanced, and rational thinking.”

John Wilson
Aug. 3 2023 12:01AM

The philosopher believed the Jews were guilty of “self-annihilation.”

Richard Wolin
June 29 2023 12:01AM

He believed the Jews were to blame for their fate.

Jeffrey Herf
Feb. 24 2023 12:01AM

An impressive new book explores how a community rooted in faith and law has grappled with the preeminent classical rationalist.

June 29 2022 12:01AM

Rather than reject Nietzsche’s ideas, he seems to have incorporated them into his own.

Alex Ozar
Dec. 21 2021 12:01AM

Faith in honest doubt.

Nov. 30 2021 12:01AM

Martin Heidegger, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Leo Strauss.

Steven Aschheim
Oct. 13 2021 12:01AM

Two college professors were intrigued by the restlessness of their students. In a new book, they trace where it comes from and what it means for young Americans today.

Aug. 6 2021 12:01AM

A new book argues that the Hebrew Bible has a distinct and consistent intellectual tradition. The author joins us to explain.

June 24 2021 12:01AM

Reason met revelation in Athens as well as Jerusalem.

June 21 2021 12:01AM

Unambiguously and unashamedly Jewish.

Gregory Sterling
April 16 2021 12:01AM