Jacques Berlinerblau
Jacques Berlinerblau (@Berlinerblau) is a professor of Jewish civilization at Georgetown University. He is the author of The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and How to Be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom (Houghton-Mifflin, 2012). His forthcoming books are The Routledge Introduction to Secularism (Routledge, 2022) and Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue (co-author, Terrence Johnson; Georgetown University Press).
Stories by this Author
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The Review
Bad Religion in the Ivory Tower
Scholars of religion should have seen the Capitol riot coming. They didn’t. -
The Review
After Coronavirus, the Deluge
Administrators have been waiting for the opportunity to finish what they started. Watch out. -
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The Review
Better College, Better Scholars, Right? Not So Much
Which profs end up where is pretty damn arbitrary. -
The Review
You Probably Won’t Get Tenure. Get Your Ph.D. Anyway.
The one broadly marketable skill a humanist might acquire in graduate school is the ability to teach. -
The Chronicle Review
Teach or Perish
The professoriate needs to refocus on students or face extinction. -
The Chronicle Review
The Crisis in Secular Studies
Political, theological, and postmodern prejudices cloud a crucial field. Consider Charles Taylor. -
The Chronicle Review
Do We Know Philip Roth?
He sprinkled doppelgängers all over his work. They amount to an ingenious camouflage. -
The Academic Workplace
Survival Strategy for Humanists: Engage, Engage
Professors of the future will have to emerge from graduate school knowing less, but being able to communicate more.
