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Sports in Jewish Culture
 IRA GLICK & NEIL EISENBERG | The Jewish problem with athletics literally arose in the locker room.
Mar 1, 2024


What Are the Humanities and to What End Does One Study Them?
VITTORIO HÖSLE | Where does the enthusiasm of the 18th century for the humanities come from?
Mar 1, 2024


A Tale of Two Historians: Remembering Natalie Zemon Davis and Donald R. Kelley
DANIEL WOOLF | Two very different historians, two complementary visions of the past, and two equally valuable bequests to future . . .
Feb 15, 2024


The Galileo Project: Looking Through the Window with New Telescopes
AVI LOEB | We cannot jump off the train of time as we age. It keeps going, so we better look through its windows. . .
Dec 7, 2023


What Do Vivekananda and Theodor Herzl Have in Common?
DEREK PENSLAR | For a professional historian, no life, no matter how absorbing and consequential, is removed from context. . .
Nov 24, 2023


How to Read Like a Human
YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | It’s not easy to befriend sages who have been dead for centuries, but only human attachment is strong . . .
Nov 24, 2023


Human Freedom, Evil, and Theodicy in a Time of Genocide
BYRON BELITSOS | If we are to face these next few decades with courage, then we need be honest about what deeds we are all capable of ...
Oct 27, 2023


Why Lorca Matters
NOËL VALIS | Memory and death. The solid and the spectral. The murdered Spanish poet-playwright Federico GarcÃa Lorca . . .
Oct 13, 2023


Stop Looking at Yourself: On the Dangers of Mirrors and Selfies
AMIT MAJMUDAR | An image of yourself, seen for what it is, should be regarded with alarm.
Sep 15, 2023


What is Scientific Truth—And Why Does it Keep Changing?
LORRAINE DASTON | Follow the science. But which science, whose science, today’s science or tomorrow’s?
Apr 28, 2023


Science and Metaphysics: A Family Quarrel?
IAIN MCGILCHRIST | Philosophy and science alike take as their ultimate aim to enlarge our understanding of Science & Humanism
Apr 14, 2023


A Nook of Her Own: Virginia Woolf, Class, and the Creative Life
ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI | Space is our birthright. So it is imperative that we have some of our own.
Apr 14, 2023
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