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
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“Male and Female He Created Them . . .”
Genesis 1:27

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