Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIdo Hevroni on Teaching Homer in Wartime
This week, as students in North America are returning to campus and settling into the rhythms of the fall semester, some of them are going to open their copies of Homer's epic poems of the Trojan War…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
David Myers and Andrew Koss on Whether Jewish Studies Has Turned against the Jews
In "A College Guide for the Perplexed," our feature essay this month at Mosaic, our focus is on higher-education reform, the future and fate of the humanities, and helping parents of Jewish students…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Barry Strauss on the Jewish Conflict with Ancient Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion
Between the year 63 before the Common Era, and the year 136 of the Common Era, the Jewish people waged three revolts against the mightiest empire in the world. In retrospect, we can see that these we…
Published on 3 months ago
Michael Doran on Israel and the American Right
On July 29, Gallup published a new poll showing American support for Israel's military action in Gaza at a historic low. But a strong majority (71 percent) of Republicans say they approve of Israel's…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
How Islamism Took Over the Middle East
This month at Mosaic, we hosted a very important set of conversations, spurred on by a very important essay: "The Enchantment of the Arab Mind," by the Egyptian-American writer Hussein Aboubakr Manso…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Tal Fortgang and David E. Bernstein on Defending Jewish Civil Right on Campus
This week, Columbia University reached a $200 million settlement with the Trump administration to resolve multiple federal civil-rights investigations. The deal—which the White House characterized as…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Rabbi J.J. Schacter on the Jewish Meaning of Memory
We are now in a period in the liturgical calendar of the Jewish people known as the Three Weeks, which begins on the seventeenth day of the Hebrew month of Tammuz, and continues through the ninth day…
Published on 4 months ago
Robert Satloff on Revitalizing Middle East Studies
October 7th exposed to everyone what many in and around the academy have known for years: American universities—not all, but many—are failing catastrophically to educate the next generation about the…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
Yuval Levin on American Renewal
This week, America celebrates 249 years of independence. As the countdown begins to our 250th birthday, our semiquincentennial, it is natural to ask what citizenship means to us as Americans, and as…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
What the War Reveals about Providence and Jewish History with Meir Soloveichik
On June 22, American B-2 bombers dropped hundreds of tons of explosives on three nuclear sites in Iran—Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Right after President Trump announced that the pilots were out of I…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago