JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES Vol. XXXVI 2024 CULTURE & ITS DISCONTENTS: FROM SELFIES TO COMMUNITY
EDITORIAL Oskar Gruenwald: Beyond Tribalism: Renewing the American Ideal 1 ARTICLES William R. Marty: Three Hypotheses About America: Helper, Lincoln, Douglass, and King 25 Nalani E. Hilderman: Identity Politics, Natural Law, and Human Dignity 49 Yaron Katz: Identity Politics in Israel: The Ultra-Orthodox Challenge 69 Yaser Esmailzadeh: Tribalism and Cultural Discontent in the Middle East 87 Jonathan M. Butcher: The Critical Contagion: Gender and Critical Race Theories 105 Robert M. Anderson Jr. & Tiffany K. Ah Loo: Healing the Ideological-Political Divisions in America 127 George A. Seaver: U.S. Constitutional Originalism from Transcendence: The Founders’ Methodology 146 Eric D. Patterson: U.S. Global Democracy Promotion: Change, Challenges, and Continuity 165 BOOK REVIEWS 187 BOOKS RECEIVED 218 CALL FOR PAPERS: JIS Symposium 2025: C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien: The Promise of Christian Fairytales 221 CALL FOR PAPERS: JIS XXXVII 2025: DNA + AI Superintelligence: Utopia or Dystopia? 222 ________________________________________________________________________________________________
“Male and Female He Created Them . . .” Genesis 1:27
