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I had met Jack at an Association of Jewish Studies conference while I was in my first year as a professor and, after a brief talk, he invited me to apply for the position at Brown.

What I care about is that a vulgar-talking yam-fascist and his allied goons in Congress are about to savage the American state and the nation it’s supposed to serve.

Many Americans remain discouraged or angry about the presidential election. Those gathering around the tree this holiday season with evangelical family may feel particularly bewildered.

The CIA has now concluded that Russian intervention was designed not just to undermine faith in American democratic processes, but also to tip the election specifically in Trump’s favor.

Inside, outside, who cares? Wear the Evangelical label, don’t wear it, it doesn’t really matter.

It may not be your father’s Christian right, with new players and new tactics, but it’s still the Christian right and it’s more empowered than its been since the glory days of Ronald Reagan.

The International Organization for the Family rolled out its “Cape Town Declaration” in South Africa Friday, reaffirming the “critical role” of traditional man-woman marriage as the bedrock of civilization.

At the fire site, chaplains have carried flowers and photographs through the fencing to create a makeshift shrine, because the building is still sealed off from the public.

Hanson is a tempting spokesperson for the anti-aid-in-dying movement because he represents its “traditional” family values, a nostalgic view of male independence and dominance within an idealized conception of nuclear families.

In the weeks since Jacob Neusner died earlier this fall, there has been a deafening silence from all of those whose lives he took into his hands, from those whose careers he crafted, whose books he published, whose lives he so fully encompassed.