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Sam Brody

Sam Brody is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati. His research involves the relationship of religion, politics and philosophy in the Abrahamic traditions.
 

Old Stories

My God, guard my tongue from evil and my lips from deceitful speech. To those who curse me, let my soul be silent; may my […]

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Joiners and Quitters

The utopian imagination must be directed inward, from which point it can radiate out to the neighbor, the spouse, the neighborhood, the city, the country and the world.

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Idealism in Obama’s America

Cynicism about politics, rampant in the United States for years now, has peculiar features that distinguish it from its siblings in the disillusionment family, such […]

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