Essays

Behind the Lion Curtain: McCarthyism at Columbia in the 1950s [Essay]
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Behind the Lion Curtain: McCarthyism at Columbia in the 1950s [Essay]

Essays | December 20, 2012

By Gilana Keller \\ Academic censorship has become a buzzword on campus of late. The recent and short-lived Barnard policy requiring flyers to contain administrative...

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An Unlikely Marriage: Jewish Argentinean Women and Leftist Politics in Buenos Aires [Essay]
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An Unlikely Marriage: Jewish Argentinean Women and Leftist Politics in Buenos Aires [Essay]

Essays | December 20, 2012

By Maddie Wolberg \\ Days after November 1, 2011, Fidel Castro sent a letter offering his condolences to the Partido Comunista de Argentina (Communist Party of...

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Foundation and Collapse: The Synagogue Council of America and a Shifting Jewish American Landscape [Essays]
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Foundation and Collapse: The Synagogue Council of America and a Shifting Jewish American Landscape [Essays]

Essays | June 13, 2012

Original Associated Press caption: “Rabbi Max D. Davidson, right, President of the Synagogue Council of America, presents the council’s first “Judaism and...

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The Mysterious Case of Monk and the Movies: Thelonious Monk’s Lost Years [Essays]
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The Mysterious Case of Monk and the Movies: Thelonious Monk’s Lost Years [Essays]

Essays | June 13, 2012

Thelonious Monk in Paris. (Guy Le Querrec, 1964) By Jeremy Liss It was July of 1959 and Thelonious Monk should have been ecstatic. True, the recent big-band performance...

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Keeping the Republic [Teaching America Excerpt]
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Keeping the Republic [Teaching America Excerpt]

Essays | June 13, 2012

    Teaching America: The Case for Civic Education, is a collection of 24 original essays from an extraordinary set of leading public officials, educators,...

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Good History and Good Citizens: Howard Zinn, Woodrow Wilson, and the Historian’s Purpose [Teaching America Excerpt]
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Good History and Good Citizens: Howard Zinn, Woodrow Wilson, and the Historian’s Purpose [Teaching America Excerpt]

Essays | June 13, 2012

Teaching America: The Case for Civic Education, is a collection of 24 original essays from an extraordinary set of leading public officials, educators, and intellectuals...

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Cloak and Pen: Harriman, the Government, & Sovietology
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Cloak and Pen: Harriman, the Government, & Sovietology

Essays | December 19, 2011

By Maddie Wolberg The start of the Cold War heralded something new for American academia. Fear of Soviet intentions and a desire to understand what was happening...

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Refuge Rethought: Building a South Sudanese Kibbutz
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Refuge Rethought: Building a South Sudanese Kibbutz

Essays | December 19, 2011

By Shira Poliak When thousands of Jews began immigrating to then-Palestine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, few were prepared to confront the...

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Hit and Run
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Hit and Run

Articles, Essays | November 13, 2011

In this year’s Super Bowl, the Green Bay Packers strafed their way to victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers behind the otherworldly play of quarterback Aaron...

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Stade Demba Diop
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Stade Demba Diop

Articles, Essays | November 13, 2011

August Thirtieth, 2011 In Dakar, Senegal, in the quarter of Liberté, a man cuts my hair in a small room carved into side of Stade Demba Diop. Light brown skin,...

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