Podcast: Joel Kotkin Thinks About God and the Pandemic
The American social scientist joins us to assess what's happening in American religious culture as the pandemic continues to take its toll.
Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic and Joel Kotkin
The Return of Paganism and the Desecration of Self-Government
A Jewish prayer for a great, grieving nation.
Jonathan Silver
Jan. 7 2021 2:07AM
Podcast: Yuval Levin on How Religious Minorities Survive in America—Then and Now
The editor of National Affairs joins us to talk about the changing majority culture in America, and what anxieties that culture provokes in the minority.
Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic and Yuval Levin
Mosaic's Year in Review: Jews, Christians, and the United States
The best of what we published in 2020 on the ever-changing relationship between Jews and Christians, and in particular American Jews and American Christians.
A Brief History of Israel's Ambassadors to Washington, Their Successes, and Their Troubles
As a new Israeli ambassador to the U.S. prepares to assume his duties, we look back at his predecessors and the evolving political environment they had to navigate.
Tevi Troy
Dec. 3 2020 12:01AM
The Tremors of Muslim Reform
The powers at the center of the Muslim world are refusing to tolerate radical Islamism, and a spirit of repair and renewal is at hand. Will it catch on?
Hussein Aboubakr
The Trouble at Northwestern
I just wrote a book about new fundamentalisms with the university's much-loved Jewish president. Now one of those fundamentalisms, aided by its Jewish exponents, is coming for him.
Gary Saul Morson
Podcast: Michael McConnell on the Free Exercise of Religion in America
A leading constitutional scholar joins Mosaic's editor for a discussion on the history of religious liberty in the United States and the legal debate surrounding the free-exercise clause.
Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic and Michael McConnell
American Judaism's Old Dinosaurs Roar Again
After being written off for years as slow and outmoded, Jewish federations and other large institutions are proving themselves indispensable in their response to COVID-19.
Jack Wertheimer
What the First Senate Hearing for a Supreme Court Nominee Shows about Today's Confirmation Process
The possibility of another contentious confirmation hearing recalls the first the Senate ever held, which just happened to be for the first Jewish justice to sit on the court.
Rick Richman
The Supreme Court Inches Toward Religious Freedom
In its most recent term, the court handed down several decisions that protect First Amendment rights. What comes next?
Howard Slugh
Sept. 23 2020 1:10AM
How America Helped Iraq Fall under Iran's Grip
The U.S. has repeatedly chosen the wrong allies in Iraq. Now Iran is poised for total control over its old adversary, a development that carries grave costs.
Michael Pregent
Sept. 22 2020 12:01AM