Or did he hate Judaism no more than he hated other religions?

What are people good for, anyway?

Pascal Bruckner’s oedipal philo-Semitism.

On the relationship between philosophy and Judaism.

A fascinating video interview.

The philosopher Justin P. McBrayer was astounded to learn that his son, currently in the second grade, was being taught a distinction between “facts” and. . .

The British-Jewish philosopher Isaiah Berlin made it his life’s work to understand and write about the European critics of the 18th-century Enlightenment—not because he, too,. . .

The publication of some of Martin Heidegger’s “black notebooks”—unpublished writings from the Nazi era—have shown the extent of the support for Hitler given by the. . .

The Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, widely considered one of today’s foremost thinkers, is unusual in that he has never hidden his Catholic beliefs and has. . .

As the intellectual historian Richard Wolin has explained, several recent works have firmly discredited Hannah Arendt’s famous (and notorious) Eichmann in Jerusalem and its. . .

A small industry has been devoted to demonizing a great 20th-century scholar, teacher, and (qualified) defender of liberal democracy. Why?

Although skeptical of man’s ability to know divine truths “scientifically,” the great medieval philosopher advised his readers to place every confidence in their beliefs. 

To the philosopher Martin Heidegger, as to the Nazis he supported, the German spirit lay under mortal threat of “Jewification” by “Semitic nomads.” 

Hanukkah reminds us that while both the Hebrew prophets and the Greek philosophers had a divine mission, the mission was not the same. (1967)