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Stuff Berlinerblau wrote, and maybe said

...on Secularism

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Trump's Prayer Breakfast Remarks Clarify His
Dangerous Intent

MSNBC
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Who was the mystery MAGA rabbi who prayed with Trump? We found him — but big questions remain

Salon
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Cheat Sheet for Political Secularism and Secular Studies

Secular Studies
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Lakin Lecture on Antisemitism with Jacques Berlinerblau

Jewish History Museum
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Separation of church and state? Let's get real — that's over. So what do we do now?

Salon
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George Santos' False Claim of Being Jewish Tells us a Lot About American Politics

MSNBC
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Jacques Berlinerblau on Secularism

Dangerous Dogma
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Modi's India: Optical Neoliberalism In! Secularism Out!

Culturico
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What's Your Blick? God or Science?

The Washington Post
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Untangling the Oxymoron of the Secular Jew

Forward
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Secular Conservatives? If Only...

The Freethinker
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Interview: Putting the Ten Commandments in public classrooms? Catholics should think twice.

American
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A Catholic Charter School? Careful What You Pray For!

The Hill
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“Secular Africa?” Making Sense of Noncompliance to Secular Constitutions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Journal of Church and State
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The Continuing Importance of Secularism

Things Not Seen
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After Jan. 6, Secularism is the Crucial "Guardrail" — and it's Fatally Weak in America

Salon
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Secularism is Not Atheism. A New Book Explains Why the Distinction is so Critical

Religion News Service
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The Crisis in Secular Studies

The Chronicle of Higher Ed
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How Democrats Dumped Secularism, Found God — And Doomed Roe v. Wade

Salon
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Many Different Secularisms

Interfaith Voices
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Why Ron DeSantis’ evangelical problem might not be (entirely) his fault

MSNBC
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Trump's Rosh Hashanah Message Manages the Unimaginable

MSNBC
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Bibliographic Quarantine is Blurring our Understanding of Secularism

Timer Higher Education
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New Legal Challenges to Florida's Abortion Law Could be Groundbreaking

MSNBC
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Episode 30: The Basics of Secularism, with Dr. Jacques Berlinerblau

Beyond Atheism
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Eric Adams' Anti-Secular Rant Should Not Surprise Democrats This Much

MSNBC
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President Trump's
Anti-Secular Foreign Policy?

Lawfare
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Bad Religion in the Ivory Towe

The Chronicle of Higher Ed
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Religious Studies Strikes Back

The Chronicle of Higher Ed

...on Literature, Jazz, and Comedy

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Jon Stewart Apologized for Misjudging Trump.
Now His Real Work Begins.

MSNBC
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Netflix’s ‘Kill Tony’ Special Proves the Entertainment Manosphere Lives On

MSNBC
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Conservatives for Deepfakes?

Compact
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Is Jon Stewart Up to the Task of Another Trump Term?

MSNBC
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Joe Rogan's Netflix Special is Light on Comedy and Heavy on Bro Complaints

MSNBC
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Jon Stewart Still Has Some Soul-Searching to do. His First RNC Show Proved It.

MSNBC
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Some of the Things Jon Stewart Hates About the Media Are Jon Stewart's Fault

MSNBC
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Jon Stewart's Misplaced 'Bothsidesism' on Israel-Palestine was a Flop.

MSNBC
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When She Was Ambivalent: Lena Dunham, Girls, and Philip Roth

Melville House
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Professorial Drunkenness: Dos and Dont's

The Chronicle of Higher Ed
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Pianist Bill Evans and You, Professor

The Chronicle of Higher Ed
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Bill Burr's New Special is Very Funny, Even if His Politics are a Confusing Mess

MSNBC
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'The White Lotus' Season 3 Makes Bad Decisions Look Beautiful

MSNBC
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Bill Maher Serves up Old, Warmed-Over Beefs in New Special

MSNBC
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Jon Stewart's DNC Special Showed Exactly Where his Loyalty Is

MSNBC
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Jon Stewart's 'Told You So' About Biden was the Scolding We Needed

MSNBC
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Dave Chappelle Can't Stop Punching Down. And That's Not the Worst Part.

MSNBC
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What the Death of Your Dad's Favorite Lefty Comedian Highlights About Cancel Culture

MSNBC
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Washington DC Celebrates Philip Roth's 80th Birthday

CJC Media
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How "The White Lotus" Breaks All the Norms of Straight Sex Culture

MSNBC
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'Anora' is a Genre-Toggling Romp With a Hidden Political Message

MSNBC
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Trump's Prayer Breakfast Remarks Clarify His Dangerous Intent

MSNBC
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Ellen's New Netflix Special is a Disjointed, Confusing Work of Meta-Art

MSNBC
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Kamala Harris is No Selina Meyer — But 'Veep' can Still Teach us Something

MSNBC
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Why the Devastating Message of 'The Bear' Speaks to So Many of Us

MSNBC
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Can Jon Stewart Live Up to His 'Daily Show' Legacy?

MSNBC
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Will Smith and the Function of a Slap – What it Means for Comedy and Comedians

Salon
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Do We Know Philip Roth?

The Chronicle of Higher Ed
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'Justice for All,' Trump's New Anthem, is Awful Art With an even More Awful Agenda

MSNBC
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Sarah Silverman and the Secret to Successful Comedy

MSNBC

...on Jewish Americans and African Americans

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Can Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff Reinvigorate the Black-Jewish Alliance?

Salon
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"Blacks and Jews" authors: "Whoopi is not the enemy" but "it may be too late" for America anyway

Salon
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James Baldwin’s “Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They’re Anti-White”

Literary Hub
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"Blacks and Jews" authors on Chappelle, Kanye getting caught in the "Black antisemitism" loop
 

Salon
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How the Black-Jewish alliance changed America — and today's struggle for voting rights

Salon
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The alarming rise in Jewish Republicans tolerating antisemitism

MSNBC
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'You People' fails to say anything about the Black-Jewish cultural dynamic

MSNBC
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Philip Roth and Race: A Legendary Novelist's Troubling Pattern
 

Salon
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When your next college free speech controversy erupts, don’t blame liberals

The Washington Post
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Black and Jewish leaders fought for civil rights. Now the relationship is fragmented

NPR

...on Higher Education

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There’s a reason more professors might be tempted to use ChatGPT

MSNBC
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I Don't Agree With Mahmoud Khalil. That Doesn't Mean He Should be Deported

MSNBC
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A Guide for College Presidents Who Want to Keep Their Jobs

Compact
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Republicans are Using Antisemitism Hearings to Carry Out a Sinister Agenda

MSNBC
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Florida is Showing Red States How to Dismantle Higher Education

MSNBC
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Know Your Rights: 10 Demands SFS Students Should Make

The Georgetown Voice
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Survival Strategy for Humanists: Engage, Engage

The Chronicle of Higher Ed
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After Coronavirus, The Deluge

The Chronicle of Higher Ed
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The GOP's Trend of Self-Destructive Bills Continues With Its Attacks on Tenure

MSNBC
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The Florida GOP's Removal of this Core College Course is Absur

MSNBC
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Why university presidents have fared so poorly under congressional scrutiny

MSNBC
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The Syllabus: Jacques Berlinerblau

The Syllabus
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The Real Reason Three University Presidents Embarrassed Themselves Before Congress

MSNBC
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Free Speech, Safety, and Nuance? How Universities Can Have All Three

MSNBC
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An Inside Look at How Colleges Work

The Leonard Lopate Show
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Hamline University's free speech controversy shows the collapse of the professoriate

MSNBC
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Better College, Better Scholars, Right? Not So Much

The Chronicle of Higher Ed
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What Academia Needs to Do to Fight the Ben Sasses of the World

MSNBC
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Protest and Perish

The Chronicle of Higher Ed
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Jacques Berlinerblau on Protest and Learning

Inside Higher Ed
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When your next college free speech controversy erupts, don’t blame liberals

The Washington Post
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How College Works (Or Doesn't)

Heterodox Academy
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Teach or Perish

The Chronicle of Higher Ed
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Q&A: Professor Criticizes University Tenure Process

The Hoya
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They've Been Scheming to Cut Tenure for Years. It's Happening.

The Chronicle of Higher Ed
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What Conservatives Get Wrong about Anti-Israel Campus Protests

MSNBC

...on Philip Roth

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Has Philip Roth Finally Been Canceled?

Daily Beast
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Audrey Speaks! (Unmuting Women): A Former Student Writes Back to Her Professor about Philip Roth

The Philip Roth Society
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From Philip Roth to Dave Chappelle, how an artist's "meta move" fuels an endless cancel culture war

Salon
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Returning to Roth | Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Jacques Berlinerblau | Culturally Determined

Bloggingheads
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The Philip Roth We Don't Know (Podcast 451)

Virtual Memories
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How Philip Roth Controlled the Narrative of His Own Life

Literary Hub
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Commemorating Philip Roth means confronting his limitations head on

Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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UVAP Author's Corner: Jacques Berlinerblau

University of Virginia Press
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Statement on the Possible Destruction of Essential Materials Pertaining to Philip Roth

The Philip Roth Society
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