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Oct 13, 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
Language, Emotions, and The Desire to Exist
AQSA IJAZ | This paradox of feeling – both elusive and demanding of expression – weaves the narrative of our inner landscapes..


Sep 29, 2023
Diaspora, Zionism, and the No-State Solution
DANIEL B. SCHWARTZ | Daniel Boyarin has made a career out of denaturalizing concepts like Judaism and religion.


Sep 28, 2023
Single Evangelical Women and Church Experience
LEA TARAGIN-ZELLER | The book charts the importance of evangelicalism for many single women, especially those living in fragmented urban...


Sep 28, 2023
Remembering Stephen Gaukroger: The History of Science and Philosophy
PETER HARRISON | Stephen Gaukroger was an eminent British-Australian scholar who specialized in the history of science and the history of...


Sep 15, 2023
How Do Humans Make Progress?
DANIEL WOOLF | It’s difficult to dispute that the human species has done, and continues to do, unintelligent things. Not only individually


Sep 15, 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 14, 2023
Jewish Chess Masters, Religion, and Mental Health
NEIL EISENBERG & IRA D. GLICK | Given the lack of prohibition by Maimonides and the outright recommendation by the Sefer Hassidim, chess...

Jun 23, 2023
Science as Culture and the Science of Meaning
PHILIP BALL | The sciences and the arts/humanities often look like rivals who want to get along but


Jun 22, 2023
Indigenous Cultures and the Imperial History of Britain’s Empire
MADELINE GRIMM | Historians have long struggled to tell the complete story of the British empire,


Jun 8, 2023
Charting the Atlas of the Heart: Why Humans Need a Language of Emotions
THOMAS HARRISON | The vastness of the human sea of feelings is what first inspires this literary journey,


Jun 8, 2023
Writing the Black Death: Jewish Responses to Italy’s Plague Years
JOSHUA TEPLITSKY | With its close readings and reconstructions that are at once imaginative and provocatively tempting, the book
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