This is the time of year when it’s not clear whether I’m completely overwhelmed with tasks or I’m suffering from writer’s block.

Brief Reflections on Getting Back to Campus

"We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning."

If things have seemed a little quieter around here this past week, it’s because I’ve been on a family vacation to visit relatives in Virginia.

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking and writing about empathy because it’s a building block of heroic behavior and it’s a cornerstone of political liberalism. I’ve tried to find ways to bring empathy tr...

There’s a certain clarity that comes from having an enemy.

The fear of being alone is central to the human experience; it isn’t some sort of peculiar anxiety at the heart of contemporary democratic life or something unique to liberal democrats.

About a year and a half ago—maybe a bit longer than that now that I think about it—I deleted all of the social media apps from my phone.

If there’s one thing I find myself saying to my students in every class I teach, it’s this: we need to spend more time together.

Last week, as my family walked back and forth to our local synagogue, we had a fair amount of time to talk.

The surest sign that a liberal democratic society is falling apart is when it becomes commonplace to use and to celebrate violence against people because of their politics.

The Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln is pleased to announce that Dr. Ari Kohen has been named the inaugural Kripke Chair of

As I sat listening to a sermon on Shabbat about the zealotry of Pinchas in this past week’s Torah reading, it struck me that almost no one — or maybe no one at all — ever talks about being a zealot fo...