The New Revised Gospel of Judas
I recommend Thomas Bartlett’s account of the fallout from last year’s Gospel of Judas fiasco. What is interesting is how the “dream team”
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The Denial of Death
In a piece entitled “Why I Had to Lie to My Dying Mother,” Susan Sontag’s son David Rieff relates the painful process and
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“Still think it’s so cool?”
With the very probable chance that we will see a Democratic presidential nominee who is a heavy smoker, it might pay to take
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Whose Balfour Declaration? Which Intifada?
Robert Irwin is not lying when he says, “So many academics want the arguments presented in Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) to be true.”
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