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Who Speaks for Science? A Conversation with Erika Lorraine Milam

ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | There is a long tradition, of course, of writing for lay audiences about science...

Past Issue

Oct 25

Prophets, Polemics, and Parasitic Nationalism

DEONNIE MOODIE | Circulations of anti-priestcraft produced the ideal of the liberal subject that would not require external rule ...

Oct 25

We Are All Judges: Why Breaking Unconscious Patterns Creates a More Just World

YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | Reacting out of unconscious patterns makes us poor judges, and we are all judges whether we wish to be or not. . .

Oct 11

Art and Eros: A Classic Persian Poem Reimagined

AQSA IJAZ | the story of Majnun and his maddening love for his young school mate Layla has inspired artists in most powerful ways. Whether t

The Secular History of Religious Feelings: A Response

Nov 8

The Secular History of Religious Feelings: A Response

J. BARTON SCOTT | Polemic was the literary genre of choice for this intimately visceral boundary-work...

The Outrage of Modernity: Loss of the Spiritual Self and the Rise of State Rule

Oct 25

The Outrage of Modernity: Loss of the Spiritual Self and the Rise of State Rule

ANAND VIVEK TANEJA | Those who would rule over the country and bring justice and order to it had first to rule themselves...

Meanings of Science

Nov 8

Who Speaks for Science? A Conversation with Erika Lorraine Milam

ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | There is a long tradition, of course, of writing for lay audiences about science...

The Jane Goodalls: Women in Science Defying the Odds

Sep 27

The Jane Goodalls: Women in Science Defying the Odds

ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | In the last forty years, Jane Goodall has become a saint of modern environmentalism, an unwavering voice calling. . .

Biology, the Brain, and the Meaning of Life with Philip Ball

Jun 4

Biology, the Brain, and the Meaning of Life with Philip Ball

PHILIP BALL | There’s one thing that distinguishes living matter from nonliving matter, it is this notion of agency.

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Sep 13

A Forum on Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India

Slandering the Sacred by J. Barton Scott is a landmark study in the field of religion and South Asia. . .

Reviews

Art and Eros: A Classic Persian Poem Reimagined

Oct 11

Art and Eros: A Classic Persian Poem Reimagined

AQSA IJAZ | the story of Majnun and his maddening love for his young school mate Layla has inspired artists in most powerful ways. Whether t

The Spirit of '76: A Jewish Perspective on the American Revolution

Sep 27

The Spirit of '76: A Jewish Perspective on the American Revolution

MICHAEL HOBERMAN | The new nation that early American Jews helped to create wasn’t the fulfillment of a preexisting ideal or a club . . .

Sep 13

There Will Be Music Despite Everything

STEVEN E. ASCHHEIM | Time’s Echo is about the painful but also potentially liberating interactions between culture and catastrophe.

Sep 13

Redeemable Humanity

DANIEL WOOLF | Apart from the stories she tells, Bakewell builds a case for remembering—even in the shadow of Auschwitz, Rwanda, 9/11. . .

Essays

We Are All Judges: Why Breaking Unconscious Patterns Creates a More Just World

Oct 25

We Are All Judges: Why Breaking Unconscious Patterns Creates a More Just World

YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | Reacting out of unconscious patterns makes us poor judges, and we are all judges whether we wish to be or not. . .

Celebrating 7 Years of Our Human-Centered Vision

Jun 21

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Celebrating 7 Years of Our Human-Centered Vision

Summer 2024 | Celebrating 7 years of our human-centered vision.

Jun 7

Aumcoming: Meditations on a Sound

AMIT MAJMUDAR | Just as "Once upon a time" primes the mind to receive a fairy tale, Aum primes the mind to receive transcendence and peace.

Politics and the Plague in Medieval Persia: A Non-Western Perspective of Pandemic History

Mar 14

Politics and the Plague in Medieval Persia: A Non-Western Perspective of Pandemic History

SARA AMERI MAHABADI | What we witnessed during COVID is not entirely new. Blaming others, attempting to dismantle the status quo, or...

Interviews

The Paradigm Shift: A New Vision of Science and Religion with Peter Harrison

Nov 10, 2023

The Paradigm Shift: A New Vision of Science and Religion with Peter Harrison

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

NASA’s Psyche Mission: Lindy Elkins-Tanton in Conversation with Philip Ball

Oct 27, 2023