Eli Navi is a writer in Chicago with a graduate degree from a top ten divinity school. He writes on controversial issues that need to be discussed.
Much discourse on college campuses centers on identity politics—the idea that one’s identity, or the way one identifies, deserves attention and respect more than classical ideals of the academy. Instead of discussing philosophy, ethics, or what it means to live a good and moral life, students, egged on by their professors, engage in conversations about marginalization and who […]
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Last week, Robin Westman shot up the Annunciation Catholic school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, killing two children and injuring eighteen more people, including fourteen children. As details of the case emerged, it became clear that the circumstances of the shooting were more complex. Robin Westman was, in fact, Robert Westman and had legally changed his name […]
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On Wednesday, May 21, 2025, Professor Kenneth Moss, one of the University of Chicago’s (UChicago) more prominent Jewish historians and a Yiddishist, presided over the anti-Semitism roundtable held at the Franke Institute for the Humanities in Regenstein Library. The room was nearly packed when the roundtable began, with students and faculty attending from all over […]
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The rules were very clear. No recordings of any kind were permitted. There would not be a traditional Q&A; rather, participants could scan two QR codes, one for the first half of the day and one for the second half, which would lead participants to a page where they could submit questions for review. Alireza […]
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