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Jacques Berlinerblau

Jacques Berlinerblau (jberlinerblau.com) is a professor of Jewish civilization at Georgetown University and an MSNBC columnist. He writes about political secularism, free-speech controversies in the arts, and American higher education. He is the author of numerous books, including Campus Confidential: How College Works, or Doesn’t, for Professors, Parents, and Students (Melville House). His forthcoming work is Can I Laugh at That? Global Comedic Controversies in the Digital Age (University of California Press).

Stories by This Author

The Review | Opinion
By Jacques Berlinerblau May 3, 2024
Activism cannot be allowed to drown out academe’s core functions.
The Review | Opinion
By Jacques Berlinerblau February 1, 2023
We’re in the execution phase of the profession’s demise.
The Review
By Jacques Berlinerblau January 28, 2021
A response to secularism’s critics.
The Review
By Jacques Berlinerblau January 21, 2021
Scholars of religion should have seen the Capitol riot coming. They didn’t.
The Review
By Jacques Berlinerblau March 26, 2020
Administrators have been waiting for the opportunity to finish what they started. Watch out.
The Review
By Jacques Berlinerblau August 21, 2017
They distract us from colleges’ systemic failures.
The Review
By Jacques Berlinerblau May 28, 2017
Which profs end up where is pretty damn arbitrary.
The Review
By Jacques Berlinerblau June 29, 2016
The one broadly marketable skill a humanist might acquire in graduate school is the ability to teach.
The Chronicle Review
By Jacques Berlinerblau January 19, 2015
The professoriate needs to refocus on students or face extinction.
The Chronicle Review
By Jacques Berlinerblau September 8, 2014
Political, theological, and postmodern prejudices cloud a crucial field. Consider Charles Taylor.