Category Archives: Jews

Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism (2008)

Posted on May 9, 2020 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2008 book: * The theory of evolution has provided a profound intellectual challenge to religion over the past century and a half. Yet most studies of the impact and significance of evolution for religion … Continue reading →

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Jews, Nationalism & Hypocrisy

Posted on May 9, 2020 by Luke Ford
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Forward: America’s Jewish institutions were failing. Coronavirus hastened their demise.

Posted on May 8, 2020 by Luke Ford

Joel Swanson writes: I’m talking about Jewish establishment organizations like the Jewish Federation, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Jewish community centers, lobbying groups like the American Jewish Committee and American Jewish Congress, and explicitly political groups … Continue reading →

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From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Luke Ford

Here are some excerpts from this 2020 book: * “[Salo] Baron was quite right in saying that until Emancipation Jews survived because of their national religion. Not that there was first a people and then a religion, but that both … Continue reading →

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Protecting the wisdom of the West (Classical Liberalism & Jewish Tradition)

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Luke Ford

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Alexander_(professor) https://www.amazon.com/Classical-Liberalism-Jewish-Tradition-Alexander/dp/0765801531 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson https://www.telelib.com/authors/T/TennysonAlfred/verse/suppressedpoems/hersperides.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Trilling Bud: “Very many of the big names in American Literature have been Jewish for a generation now. Charles Feidelson, Leslie Feidler, Nina Baym, Sacvan Bercovitch, etc. Also during this generation (between 1960-2000), the study of … Continue reading →

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