Jessica Seigel

Jessica Seigel is an award-winning journalist and New York University adjunct journalism professor. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Salon and National Geographic Traveler, on NPR, and more. Follow her on Twitter at @Jessicaseagull

Education & Society

The Truth about Lying

You can’t spot a liar just by looking, but psychologists are zeroing in on methods that might actually work.

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Science & Technology

Can We Build a Better Facebook?

Is it time to turn our back on Facebook? And if so, what social network could possibly replace it?

Education & Society

Jews vs. the “Judeo-Christian Tradition”

Since the 1930s, the idea of a “Judeo-Christian tradition” has been used in American politics, but some Jews have always taken issue with the entire concept.

Arts & Culture

Verbatim: Fredric Jameson

Marxist cultural critic Fredric Jameson offered a philosophy of late capitalism that gave us a language for talking about globalization and the end of modernism.

Politics & History

The Genocide Before the Shoah

For a century, Jews in Turkey have maintained a strategic silence when it comes to recognizing the Armenian genocide. Could that be changing?

Arts & Culture

Lost Literacies Strips Down the Dawn of Comics

In his new book, literary historian Alex Beringer demonstrates how the birth of the genre of printed comic long preceded the Sunday Funny Pages.

Jessica Seigel

The Truth about Lying

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