Nathan Shields, a composer whose works have been performed by various orchestras and chamber ensembles, is associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. He earned his doctorate at the Juilliard School in New York, and has received fellowships from Tanglewood and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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To discuss our May essay about conversion and liberalism, “The Present, Past, and Prehistory of Conversion,” we invited its author, the composer Nathan Shields, to speak with Mosaic ‘s editor Jonatha...
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Longing to leave liberalism behind, everyone from Catholics to Communists is experimenting with self-transformation. What's fueling that desire, and is it strong enough to make the break?
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Wagnerism.
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I am grateful to Jon D. Levenson and R.J. Snell for their responses to my essay in Mosaic on the continuing reverberations of the 1858 Mortara case and the heated debate aroused by its recent trea...
Monthly Essay ·
In play again are bitterly contested questions about the Catholic Church, about religion and politics, and—inevitably—about Christianity's relation to Judaism and the Jews.
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I thank Edward Rothstein, Terry Teachout, and James Loeffler for their sympathetic and illuminating responses to my essay. They have raised a number of issues, like the sordid history of Nazi-era Bayr...
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Two centuries after the great composer’s birth, his anti-Semitism remains a bitterly contested issue. Perhaps that's because no one has yet come to grips with its, or his, true nature.
