Prof. Delaney, Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University delivered this speech on 18 April 2002 as part of the Markkula Ethics Center Lecture Series. In it she ...

These videos don’t show missile strikes on the USS Abraham Lincoln. One shows ship details that are inconsistent with authentic images, and the other was first posted online in 2025 during the 12-Day ...

F. Murray Abraham's Academy Award, like its owner, is a bit of a character, adorned with a hamster costume all its own. And it doesn't gather dust in a display case; it's a traveling companion. "I ...

The title of this piece points to the central event under discussion: Abraham’s attempted sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah. But, given our discussion of last week and the week before, it might also ...

The story in Genesis of Abraham’s willingness to kill his son Isaac at God’s command still gets a lot of attention. But it doesn’t get a lot of love. In every broadside against religion, God’s ...

Abraham sacrifices Isaac. Chromolithograph based on a drawing (1860) by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (German painter, 1794 – 1872), published ca. 1880. ZU_09/Getty Images We have been horrified in ...

This week and next we’ll address what might be called “Abraham and the Child Problem.” We’ll see the human solution … and the divine one. We saw last week the central point of Abraham’s (still, ...

In January 2021, a photograph of former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln garnered newfound attention. The picture appeared to show Abraham Lincoln's ghost situated behind her. The old glass-plate ...