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To the question of how totalitarian methods could ever draw the compliance of free citizens, she replied: through the enchantment of success.

His historical life has never been transparent

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: ‘Serenity in the face of death came from profound tranquility in the face of life’

From the blog of Jonathan Sacks at The Times of Israel

Many people have favorite movie stars and favorite musicians. For example, mine are -- to stick with the living -- the actor Jeremy Irons and the pianist Martha Argerich. However, being a bookish lad, I also have a favorite intellectual, Marina Warner. Past president of Britain's Royal Society of Literature, Warner specializes in the study of mythology, religion and fairy tales, but also writes art, film and cultural criticism, as well as novels and short stories. Of her many books, I'...

The Hedgehog Review is published three times per year by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. In keeping with the Institute’s own mission and vision, the journal is concerned with issues of contemporary cultural change and its individual and social consequences.

From the blog of Jonathan Sacks at The Times of Israel

Écrivain de génie, chrétien engagé, penseur politique, fondateur de la langue italienne, le Florentin Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) a marqué et inspiré artistes et lecteurs de toutes époques. À l’occasion du 700e anniversaire de sa mort, suivons tout l’été les pas de Dante l’exilé, prophète...

Image: Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Attempts to cast Said as the consummate New York intellectual miss the point that his milieu was one of global, and specifically Palestinian, anticolonial struggle. Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said Timothy Brennan On February 2, 1977, Palestinian poet Rashid Hussein died in his New York apartment. Hussein had been born forty-one years earlier in Musmus, a town not far from Nazareth. Politics for Hussein, Edward Said remembered, �...

Theory of the Novel Instructors: Armstrong and Garréta Intended for graduate students and advanced undergraduates who want to pursue some area of novel, fiction, or narrative studies, this course examines a set of concepts that should provide them access to 1) the modes of thinking that characterize novels across the modern and contemporary periods and several different national traditions, 2) the various ways that critical theory has defined those concepts, and 3) reading the novel as a con...