Genocide and the Burden of History

Identity/Crisis

What happens to the credibility and power of scholarship when practitioners abandon careful methodology in favor of rhetorical certainty?

In this special episode of Identity/Crisis, Yehuda Kurtzer explores the intellectual and ethical responsibilities of scholarship in the face of the Gaza war and asks: how can we confront a horror and feel it deeply, yet stop short of giving that horror a name?


You can read Barry Wimpfheimer's Sources article HERE


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What happens to the credibility and power of scholarship when practitioners abandon careful methodology in favor of rhetorical certainty?

In this special episode of Identity/Crisis, Yehuda Kurtzer explores the intellectual and ethical responsibilities of scholarship in the face of the Gaza war and asks: how can we confront a horror and feel it deeply, yet stop short of giving that horror a name?


You can read Barry Wimpfheimer's Sources article HERE


You can now sponsor an episode of Identity/Crisis. Click HERE to learn more. 


JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST FOR MORE HARTMAN IDEAS 

2025-08-12 46 min
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