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Margaux Fitoussi’s world has changed before her eyes more than once. Born in France, she lived in Paris until she was 7, when her parents—she an American dancer and he a doctor of Tunisian origin—divorced. Next was a home on the edge of the ocean in Long...

Bitter budget fights. Political battles over same-sex marriage. Religious radio-show and television hosts demonizing opponents. Heated debates on gun control in the face of massacres. Why are Americans so polarized on so many issues, and what can be done...

Professor Gary Dorrien delivers the 2015 Lentz Lecture. An Episcopal priest, Professor Dorrien is the author of 16 books and approximately 275 articles that range from ethics, social theory, and theology, to philosophy, politics, and history. He is a...

This talk contradicts the longstanding reading of Emerson as invested in idealism and instead charts his obsession with matter both organic and inorganic, organized and unorganized. By attending to his interest in sciences of life, Branka Arsić...

"Journalism is a public service, a calling," said Jill Abramson, AB '76, journalist and former executive editor of The New York Times, during the keynote address at the annual HDS Dean's Leadership Forum. It was the unfolding of the Watergate scandal on...

Michael Marder discusses the paradox of “excessive heat” that, on the one hand, signals the ardency of faith and the love of God and, on the other, the effect of sin configured as ariditas (dryness), undoing viriditas (the greening green, a self...

In late January 2020, Nigerians reacted to U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement that Nigeria would be added to the administration's controversial visa and travel bans list. In a statement, the Association for Credible Leadership in Nigeria (ACLN)...

Aaron Zelin explores why jihadism grew so rapidly in Tunisia after the uprisings in 2011 in a lecture on April 27, 2015 at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. The lecture is part of the Junior Fellowship series,...

How do journalists cover religion? What makes for good religion reporting? What do journalists need to know about religion to do their job? A symposium on December 8 and 9, 2016, at Harvard Divinity School brought together some of the nation's leading...

In an October 2020 op-ed for the Christian Post, Joe Biden wrote: “My Catholic faith drilled into me a core truth—that every person on earth is equal in rights and dignity, because we are all beloved children of God.” As president, he continued, “These...

On a November evening in Maine, MTS candidate Sara Otero was awoken from her afternoon nap by the sound of women singing. She made her way down the stairs of Snowbird Lodge in darkness to find the living room awash in warm candlelight. A fire was...

When Valarie Kaur, MTS ’07, visited the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, after a white supremacist shot six people there in August of 2012, she found none of the recriminations and finger-pointing that characterized the politics of gun violence in the...