For the most part, history is more complicated and more nuanced than we give it credit for. Hindsight serves to soften and streamline the narrative. Understanding contemporary motivations requires a ...
In other words, modern societies still speak constantly about “rights,” “justice,” “fairness,” “freedom,” and “dignity,” yet ...
Starting fall 2020, students entering the School of General Studies with under 30 credits will be required to take Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization if they have not already ...
Generations of Columbia College students have been introduced to the philosophy that shaped the Western world through the Core Curriculum course Contemporary Civilization. In the spring of 2021, I ...
Science has replaced superstition. Technology has liberated humanity from primitive explanations about spirits, transcendence ...
Author of “History of the Jews,” National Director, the Hillel Foundations. Here is one of the great seminal works of our day. It follows in the tradition of Philo, Saadiah, Maimonides and other ...