All Tablet Profiles stories

The man who presided over the growth, enrichment, and intellectual and moral decline of New York’s greatest university embodied the workings of 21st-century power through a masterful two-decade-long disappearing act

How Pitchfork darling Ariel Pink became a music industry untouchable

With his newsletter, David French pushes his fellow believers to think beyond the usual political boundaries, while explaining to outsiders what his community is thinking

Harold Grinspoon struggled with reading as a child. Today he’s the man behind the world’s largest Jewish book program, PJ Library.

Finkielkraut, attacked (and defended)

An astonishing true story of a man’s encounter with fate

How ethnographer Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett became the keeper of Poland’s Jewish heritage