Jacques Berlinerblau (jberlinerblau.com) is a professor of Jewish civilization at Georgetown University who writes about political secularism and free speech. His most recent work is As Professors Lay Dying, and his next is Can We Laugh at That: Comedy in a Conflicted Age (University of California Press, 2026).
Stories by This Author
The Review | Opinion
Ideological imbalance is real. But the solution is unclear.
The Review | Opinion
Activism cannot be allowed to drown out academe’s core functions.
The Review | Opinion
We’re in the execution phase of the profession’s demise.
The Review
Scholars of religion should have seen the Capitol riot coming. They didn’t.
The Review
Administrators have been waiting for the opportunity to finish what they started. Watch out.
The Review
Which profs end up where is pretty damn arbitrary.
The Review
The one broadly marketable skill a humanist might acquire in graduate school is the ability to teach.
The Chronicle Review
The professoriate needs to refocus on students or face extinction.
