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Benjamin Kerstein


The Heretic and the Philosopher
Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World by Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Lévy
Spring 5771 / 2011, no. 44

A Job Badly Done
A Serious Man Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
Winter 5770 / 2010, no. 39

The Age of Catastrophic Thinking
Summer 5769 / 2009, no. 37

Batman's War on Terror
The Dark Knight, a film by Christopher Nolan
Autumn 5769 / 2008, no. 34

Preaching to the Choir
World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism by Norman Podhoretz
Spring 5768 / 2008, no. 32

The Western Abyss
The Possibility of an Island by Michael Houellebecq
Autumn 5767 / 2006, no. 26

Sins of ’68
Power and the Idealists by Paul Berman
Spring 5766 / 2006, no. 24

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Far Away, So CloseHow the commandments bridge the unbridgeable gap between God and man.

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