A powerful quote by Judith Butler reveals how reading immerses us in new worlds. We lose ourselves in books, only to return ...

When I first heard that McGill University, my university, was awarding Professor Judith Butler an honorary doctorate, I winced, quietly. Butler is a caustic critic of Israel, with a blind spot for ...

Renowned queer feminist theorist Judith Butler has issued a warning to Americans outraged by Donald Trump to stop missing the forest for the trees. In an op-ed for The Guardian, Butler explained that ...

Judith Butler gave the 2025 Ian Watt lecture, an event held by the Center for the Study of the Novel, on Tuesday evening. As a professor of comparative literature at the University of California, ...

This week's show was recorded at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, with host Peter Sagal, guest judge and scorekeeper Helen Hong, Not My Job guest Judith Butler and panelists Maz Jobrani, Faith Salie ...

The Jewish Museum in New York has scrapped a talk that included a planned appearance by Israel critic Judith Butler after Butler pulled out of the event amid pressure from supporters of the Jewish ...

A pedestrian crossing decorated with the pattern of the transgender flag on a street in London April 10, 2024. (OSV News photo/Isabel Infantes, Reuters) There is no question that a seismic shift in ...

Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. Long before gender theory became a principal target of the right, it existed principally in academic ...