Sightings Articles
On Social Dissolution: Lost Threads and Forgotten Dogmas
From passing conversations on the street to extended news commentaries on air and online, it is hard to miss the pervasive sense of social breakdown....
September 23, 2021
Don't You Know There's a War On?
Thirty years after its publication, Culture Wars remains an essential guide to American politics....
September 17, 2021
Conspiracy Theories and Human Psychology
The unsettlingly normal cognitive roots of outlandish explanations...
September 9, 2021
A Year to Mask and Unmask
What the pandemic has concealed and revealed about the conditions of possibility for our society...
June 28, 2021
Secular Music in Seven Lessons
Darkwave artist Cold Cave's recent album, "Fate in Seven Lessons," sheds light on the complexities of popular culture's interaction with religion...
June 24, 2021
A Tale of Two Classrooms: Impressions of an Academic Year
Even in extraordinary times, Dickens reminds us to exercise caution around superlatives...
June 21, 2021
Now Let Us Sing! Juneteenth 2021
The deep roots connecting Jewish and Black prophetic witness...
June 17, 2021
Think Again: Religion in the Wake of the Pandemic
Covid has given us a chance to rethink and reinvigorate our traditions, and we cannot afford to waste it...
June 14, 2021
Loss and Continuation: Lessons from the Popol Vuh
An ancient Maya tradition on keeping those we've lost alive...