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Stuff Berlinerblau wrote, and maybe said

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SECULARISM & RELIGION

...on Secularism

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

America

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A Catholic charter school? Careful what you pray for!

The Hill

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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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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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Cheat Sheet for Political Secularism and Secular Studies

Secular Studies

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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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Bibliographic quarantine is blurring our understanding of secularism

Times Higher Education

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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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The Continuing Importance of Secularism

Things Not Seen

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New legal challenges to Florida's abortion law could be groundbreaking

MSNBC

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George Santos' false claim of being Jewish tells us a lot about American politics

MSNBC

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After Jan. 6, secularism is the crucial "guardrail" — and it's fatally weak in America

Salon

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

Beyond Atheism

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Jacques Berlinerblau on Secularism 

Dangerous Dogma

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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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Eric Adams' anti-secular rant should not surprise Democrats this much

MSNBC

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Modi’s India: Optical neoliberalism in! Secularism out!

Culturico

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The Crisis in Secular Studies

The Chronicle of Higher Education

President Trump’s Anti-Secular Foreign Policy?

Lawfare

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What's Your Blick? God or Science?

The Washington Post

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How Democrats dumped secularism, found God — and doomed Roe v. Wade

Salon

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Bad Religion in the Ivory Tower

The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Untangling the Oxymoron of the Secular Jew

Forward

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Many Different Secularisms

Interfaith Voices

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Religious Studies Strikes Back

The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Secular conservatives? If only…

The Freethinker

Comedian Performing

...on Literature, Jazz, and Comedy

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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’s DNC special showed exactly where his loyalty is

MSNBC

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Kamala Harris is no Selina Meyer — but 'Veep' can still teach us something

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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Jon Stewart’s ‘told you so’ about Biden was the scolding we needed

MSNBC

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Why the devastating message of ‘The Bear’ speaks to so many of us

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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The White House Correspondents' Dinner is the irreverent tribute America needs

MSNBC

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Jon Stewart can’t save democracy, but it seems he can help identify its enemies

MSNBC

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Jon Stewart’s about-face on Trump jokes is quietly meaningful

MSNBC

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Dave Chappelle can't stop punching down. And that's not the worst part.

MSNBC

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Can Jon Stewart live up to his ‘Daily Show’ legacy?

MSNBC

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Jon Stewart’s misplaced ‘bothsidesism’ on Israel-Palestine was a flop

MSNBC

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What the death of your dad’s favorite lefty comedian highlights about cancel culture

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

Melville House 

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Washington DC Celebrates Philip Roth's 80th Birthday

CJC Media

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Do We Know Philip Roth?

The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Dave Chappelle’s SNL monologue was clever, but insidious

MSNBC

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Professorial Drunkenness: Dos and Don’ts

The Chronicle of Higher Education

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How "The White Lotus" breaks all the norms of straight sex culture

MSNBC

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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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Pianist Bill Evans and You, Professor

JazzProfiles

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My 6-Year-Old Son Takes Ballet—You Got a F#$%^$#@ Problem With That?

The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Sarah Silverman and the secret to successful comedy

MSNBC

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...on Philip Roth

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

Virtual Memories

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UVAP Author's Corner: Jacques Berlinerblau

University of Virginia Press

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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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How Philip Roth Controlled the Narrative of His Own Life

Literary Hub

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

The Philip Roth Society

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

bloggingheads.tv

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Has Philip Roth Finally Been Canceled?

Daily Beast

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Commemorating Philip Roth means confronting his limitations head on

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Synagogue Service

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

Salon

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

Salon

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

Literary Hub

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The alarming rise in Jewish Republicans tolerating antisemitism

MSNBC

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

The Washington Post

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

Salon

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

MSNBC

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

NPR

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...on Higher Education

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Why university presidents have fared so poorly under congressional scrutiny

MSNBC

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Protest and Perish

The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Jacques Berlinerblau on Protest and Learning

Inside Higher Ed

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Republicans are using antisemitism hearings to carry out a sinister agenda

MSNBC

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The real reason three university presidents embarrassed themselves before Congress

MSNBC

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Florida is showing red states how to dismantle higher education

MSNBC

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Free speech, safety and nuance? How universities can have all three

MSNBC

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How College Works (Or Doesn't)

Heterodox Academy

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

The Washington Post

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Know your rights: 10 demands SFS students should make 

The Georgetown Voice

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An Inside Look at How Colleges Work

The Leonard Lopate Show

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Teach or Perish

The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Survival Strategy for Humanists: Engage, Engage

The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Hamline University's free speech controversy shows the collapse of the professoriate

MSNBC

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Q&A: Professor Criticizes University Tenure Process

The Hoya

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After Coronavirus, the Deluge

The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Better College, Better Scholars, Right? Not So Much

The Chronicle of Higher Education

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

The Chronicle of Higher Education

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The GOP’s trend of self-destructive bills continues with its attacks on tenure

MSNBC

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What academia needs to do to fight the Ben Sasses of the world

MSNBC

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What conservatives get wrong about anti-Israel campus protests

MSNBC

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The Florida GOP's removal of this core college course is absurd

MSNBC

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