Podcast: Cynthia Ozick on Her New Novel Antiquities
August 13, 2021 | By: Cynthia Ozick

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In the year 1970, the distinguished American writer Cynthia Ozick published an essay arguing that Jewish literature might succeed if it embraced and conveyed the rich particularism of the Jewish experience. In a famous metaphor, […]
Read MorePodcast: Jenna & Benjamin Storey on Why Americans Are So Restless
August 6, 2021 | By: Jenna Storey & Benjamin Storey

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Two liberal arts professors were intrigued by a habit of mind they detected in their students, especially their high-achieving ones. Despite material abundance and the freedom to pursue a profession or passion of their choosing, […]
Read MorePodcast: Sohrab Ahmari on Why Americans Must Recover the Sabbath
May 19, 2021 | By: Sohrab Ahmari

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. The hallmark of the American constitutional system was the idea that all men are created equal. Of course, the American regime did not live up to that ambition for centuries, but the ideal of equality […]
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Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. The United States is undergoing a spike in violent crime. Murder rates have increased drastically in big cities across the country, from Atlanta and New York to Milwaukee and Seattle. For the roughly 7 million Jews […]
Read MorePodcast: Meena Viswanath on How the Duolingo App Became an Unwitting Arbiter of Modern Jewish Identity
April 14, 2021 | By: Meena Viswanath

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Last week, the language-learning app Duolingo introduced a new course on Yiddish. The course sparked significant interest, and provoked significant controversy. In the app’s menu, each language is represented by the flag of the primary country […]
Read MorePodcast: Sean Clifford on the Israeli Company Making the Internet Safe for American Families
March 25, 2021 | By: Sean Clifford

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Today, everybody, children and adults alike, is glued to their smartphones and tablets and computers. But much of the content readily available on these devices can be harmful, especially for children. So helping children navigate […]
Read MorePodcast: Gil & Tevi Troy’s Non-Negotiable Judaisms
March 4, 2021 | By: Gil Troy & Tevi Troy

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Not long ago, Conservative Judaism was America’s largest and most vital Jewish denomination. Today, things are different; for many years now, the movement has been losing and not replacing its members. In a recent essay […]
Read MorePodcast: Joel Kotkin Thinks about God and the Pandemic
January 13, 2021

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Most of our podcast guests, especially those focusing on religious issues, tend to look at the world in a traditional way―meaning, their habits of mind tend to be traditional and conservative. Many of our podcast […]
Read MorePodcast: Yuval Levin Asks How Religious Minorities Survive in America—Then and Now
December 30, 2020

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. American democracy is a nation of nations. Muslims, Christians, and Jews, women and men from every nation on earth have made themselves into Americans. Nevertheless, a unique majority culture developed within this nation of nations: […]
Read MorePodcast: John Podhoretz on 75 Years of Commentary
October 29, 2020 | By: John Podhoretz

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In November of 1945, the American Jewish Committee established a new, independent magazine of Jewish ideas, with the goal of explaining America to the Jews and the Jews to America. This month, Commentary marks 75 years of publishing about […]
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