EXIT, GHOST
The Blake Bailey scandal has placed the great author’s legacy in doubt—but perhaps it was never assured to begin with.
Jacques Berlinerblau is a Professor of Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University. He has written numerous scholarly books and articles about secularism, his most current is Secularism: The Basics (Routledge). (jberlinerblau.com; Twitter @Berlinerblau)
TALKING CURE
Two Georgetown profs, one Black and one Jewish, discuss why it’s so hard for Blacks and Jews to get to know one another.
BEGGARING BELIEF
The word “secularism” has become linked with forms of extreme atheism that are hostile to all forms of religion. It was not always thus.