Review – Polyhymnia

A review of “Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition” by David Nirenberg

2026-05-092025-10-21 by Todd Myers

David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition is an extraordinary work of historical inquiry. At nearly 600 pages, it traces how “Judaism”—often more an idea than a living community—has served for over three millennia as a symbol against which civilizations defined truth, order, and legitimacy. This is not simply a catalogue of prejudice or persecution. Nirenberg’s …

A Review of Wynton Marsalis’s Moving to Higher Ground

2025-09-082023-03-29 by Daniel Asia

The artistic and creative personae of a performer or composer is a manifestation of his entire life experience, everything that he has listened to, and his basic constitution, and his personality. Whereas in the hard or social sciences we care little about the person who discovers a truth, because it is “out there,” with the arts, we wish to know about the painter or composer, because it comes from “inside,” it is of “them.”