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DEREK PENSLAR | For a professional historian, no life, no matter how absorbing and consequential, is removed from context. . .

YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | It’s not easy to befriend sages who have been dead for centuries, but only human attachment is strong . . .

SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ | The book’s focus on the pursuit of hidden wisdom and the quest to overcome human limitations . . .

DANIEL WOOLF | The titular “kingdom of darkness” derives from a biblical phrase originally referencing Satan’s dominion and . . .

PETER HARRISON | So there’s a kind of imperialistic assumption about the superiority of the intellectual apparatus that we’re operating . .

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 ...

NOËL VALIS | Memory and death. The solid and the spectral. The murdered Spanish poet-playwright Federico García Lorca . . .

DANIEL WOOLF | It’s difficult to dispute that the human species has done, and continues to do, unintelligent things. Not only individually

JOSHUA TEPLITSKY | With its close readings and reconstructions that are at once imaginative and provocatively tempting, the book

MARGARET D. KAMITSUKA | Wollstonecraft can be a serious feminist interlocutor without being a feminist saint.

LORRAINE DASTON | Einstein’s 1905 article on special relativity is an article that no respectable physics journal today would print

LORRAINE DASTON | If there is one moral to the history of science it is: whatever we believe now, we probably won’t believe