Jacob Abolafia
Abolafia: The state of the fight

There is, as some of you might know, a rather ancient quarrel between poets and philosophers. I, a student of philosophy, might seem partisan. Of […]

Abolafia: The virtue that makes small

I desperately long to sympathize with Katie Carmody’s claim that the humanities are in fact “better” than the sciences because of their ability to address […]

Parade fiasco bad news for Mideast

For the last month, the topic on everyone’s lips across the state of Israel has been one strangely familiar to the ears of the modern […]