After his retirement from Columbia, Phillip Lopate prepares for more books—and possibly more teaching
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
Gatecrashers Ep. 1: What was Seth Low Junior College, and why did the brilliant Jewish writer Isaac Asimov get sent there?
The things that happen when you stare at the sea
In a just-released novel, a boy leaves his bohemian mother to move in with his professor father, hoping he’ll finally get a proper education
Seventeen years after his death, can the anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, and folklorist who changed what America listened to overcome his original sin?
What does the Weather Underground’s 45-year-old manifesto have to tell us today?
Too Israeli for the left and not Zionist enough for the right, this human-rights lawyer could be one of Israel’s most effective ambassadors if his critics weren’t so afraid of what he has to say
$70k is a lot of money
The late 1960s and all their Jewish rebelliousness, in an ‘energetic’ fiction full of alternate realities
Brutalities cry for attention. Attention to the appalling causes disturbance. Deal with it. You’re at school to be disturbed.
A new biography of Jacob Neusner examines his ‘complicated, colorful, and unappreciated intellectual life’
How the Columbia/Barnard Hillel brought me comfort and helped me take control of my Jewish path
On the logic and illogic of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
Uptown, Columbia kids are equating Israel with campus rape
The great 20th-century scholar remembers a life among books
From the confines of Skverer Hasidism to Columbia University and fashion eyewear shops, the singer and Internet sensation isn’t slowing down soon
To preserve Schmalz’s work, author Samuel G. Freedman has begun a Kickstarter campaign to fund an audio documentary and book project