Republicans Don’t Understand Democrats — And Democrats Don’t Understand Republicans – Yascha Mounk, The Atlantic – Americans are more passionate about their dislike of the other party than they are about their own, and their understanding of what their political opponents believe is a gross exaggeration. Though ignorance and caricature may go hand-in-hand, formal education only makes this problem worse. This article has no solutions.

Enter Paul: On Paula Fredriksen’s “Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle” and “When Christians Were Jews” – Brad East, Los Angeles Review of Books – The influence of St. Paul the Apostle on history and theology is difficult to overstate, resulting in a near-infinite sea of scholarship about him, his works, and his legacy. That scholarship, at times, may have failed to adequately place the man in his proper cultural and historical context of first century Judaism, leading to misunderstandings, missed connections, and antisemitism. This review lays it all out, as Fredriksen presents it, with some critique.