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Welcome to Zaytuna, the Nation’s First Muslim Liberal Arts College

(Getty / Justin Sullivan) On November 15, 2010, the morning I first visited Hamza Yusuf’s theology class at Zaytuna College, the nation’s first Muslim school of liberal arts, the room…
AUTHOR:Scott Korb
PUBLISHED: May 15, 2013
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2379 words)
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Unburied: Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the Lessons of Greek Tragedy

“Bury this terrorist on U.S. soil and we will unbury him.”So ran the bitter slogan on one of the signs borne last week by enraged protesters outside the Worcester, Massachusetts,…
PUBLISHED: May 14, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3042 words)

Harriet Jacobs’s War

By early 1863, the former slave Harriet Jacobs was in better health than she’d been in years. Nearly two decades earlier, she had escaped to freedom after years hidden away in the garret above her…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 20, 2013
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1894 words)
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Killing the Buddha

At the edge of the West Bank village of Faqqua, an Israeli soldier watches from the other side of the Green Line. Photo by Bryan MacCormack of Left in Focus. It took three vehicles to get to Jenin.…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3298 words)

Has Fiction Lost Its Faith?

A seminary student has an affair with an insurance adjuster he met in an office building near Riverside Church; then they go their separate ways — and that’s the whole story. A collective of…
AUTHOR:PAUL ELIE
PUBLISHED: Dec. 19, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (648 words)

Has Fiction Lost Its Faith?

A seminary student has an affair with an insurance adjuster he met in an office building near Riverside Church; then they go their separate ways — and that’s the whole story. A collective of…
AUTHOR:PAUL ELIE
PUBLISHED: Dec. 19, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (648 words)

Harriet Jacobs’s First Assignment

Harriet Jacobs arrived in Washington in June 1862, she later reported, “without molestation.” Lots of people traveled in and out of the capital at the time, but for Jacobs it was quite a feat. By…
AUTHOR:Scott Korb
PUBLISHED: Sept. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1866 words)
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Lester Bangs: Truth-teller

The second post in a series in which we ask what book or writer our contributors have returned to again and again. Every reader, starting from childhood, draws his own map of the world of letters.…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 21, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3025 words)
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Words Mean Things

Illustration by Sean Ford. In June, when the Supreme Court upheld President Obama’s health care reform, Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion declared that the individual mandate’s “minimum coverage…
AUTHOR:Scott Korb
PUBLISHED: Aug. 3, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (973 words)
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