Response ·
Anti-Modern Anti-Semitism
By Tara Isabella BurtonThe cultural chaos of the current era seems to map perfectly onto the anxieties of the 19th century. The same goes for today's flavor of anti-Semitism.
Tara Isabella Burton
Tara Isabella Burton is the author of Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World and the forthcoming Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, Granta, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
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Can Algorithms Satisfy the Human Need for Ritual?
By Tara Isabella BurtonThe Startup Wife , a buzzy new novel, has been hailed as a serious exploration of modern spirituality. All it explores is a tech-fantasy of hyper-individualism and personal fulfillment.
Response ·
The Problem of (Jewish) Positive Thinking
By Tara Isabella BurtonThe belief that we can manifest good wishes and look inwards to find God has a long history in the United States. Its influence has left many of the nation's Jews deluded.
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Yoga and Judaism Are Incompatible—But Not In the Way Menachem Wecker Thinks
By Tara Isabella BurtonContemporary yoga culture fits in with the widespread sense of religiosity as something inner and instinctual rather than communal and tradition-bound.
