Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Lerone A. Martin on the white Christian legacy of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.

Daniel Boyarin makes the seemingly paradoxical proposal that in order to end Zionism, Jewishness should be defined as nationhood.

They might, given growing disaffection with Israel among young American Jews.

When Desmond Tutu reconciled African theology and Black theology.

A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.

Epiphanies can prompt us to view the world differently, a new book contends. But they are no substitute for ethical and political debate.

Far from a metaphysical battle between fanaticism and tolerance, the Rushdie affair exemplifies the marketization of hurt sentiments.

A new book suggests that modern readers can still follow the path of reason that Spinoza traced to true well-being, but they might not want to.

Pestilence and plague have often prompted waves of apocalyptic thinking, calling into question the steady march of progress in human history.

The city is running out of graves, and against the backdrop of the Israel–Palestine conflict, burial is often a political matter.

Capitalism hasn’t disenchanted the world. Like a bad lover, it beguiles us into spiritual desolation.

The political philosophy embraced by Germany’s leading party helped reunite Europe after World War II. Can it guide us safely away from today’s populism—or did it cause it?

Oil’s grip on U.S. society is as much religious as economic.

Martin Hägglund argues that only atheists are truly committed to improving our world. But people of faith and socialists have more in common than he thinks.

But it is increasingly difficult to question Israel’s policies without accusations of anti-Semitism.

In the mid-twentieth century, the Church radically changed its position on whether religion is a public or private matter.

In a bid to consolidate power, Erdoğan is reshaping Turkish politics in the image of the Ottoman past.

The focus on Muslim anti-Semitism obscures the real quandary of multiculturalism in Angela Merkel’s Germany.

An experiment in a quintessentially American form of protest.

Despite what Steve King says, the U.S. was never a Christian nation.

Islamophobia is a shared project of the Democrat and Republican parties, long preceding the rise of white nationalism and Trump.

Alternatives to Zionism, from the Uganda Scheme to Birobidzhan, present a complex history of the search for a Jewish home.

Protest is not merely a matter of personal awakening, but of organizing and mobilizing the power needed to change social relations.

Kurds—the largest stateless ethnic group in the world—can be found on all sides of an increasingly complex conflict that stretches across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

America continues to be haunted by our need to grieve.

Suddenly conservatives want us to believe they care about homophobia.

Conservative Christians are out to restore their historical legal privileges.

Secularism is fundamental to liberal governance. But is it sustainable?