The Cherubim: From Guardians of Eden to Auschwitz
James A. Diamond Anxiety of Cherubim I have been thinking for quite some time now about the significance of angels in the Jewish
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Essays
Formative Years of Islamic History
Isabel Toral-Niehoff on Tobias Andersson The emergence of Arabic history-writing in early Islam is a complex phenomenon. On the one hand, it drew
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Hebrew Literature and The Fate of American Hebraism
Yeshua G. B. Tolle Until recently, several plastic tubs and cardboard boxes sat gathering dust in the basement of DePauw University’s spiritual life
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Beauty and Truth Again? Lessons from Physics, Art, and Theology
Tom McLeish This essay is based on a public lecture given in May of 2022 at the Faraday Institute, Cambridge. PDF available here.
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Why Einstein Wouldn’t Be Published Today: A Conversation with Lorraine Daston, Part Two
Part One of our conversation is available here.The full conversation is available as PDF. As part of our Meanings of Science in the
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How the Constitution Became America’s Bible
Taylor Jipp on Twentieth-Century Supreme Court Justice, Felix Frankfurter As Trump recently addressed his audience at the CPAC conference, he called them “the
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Kafka’s Lost Son
Samuel Liu on Kafka and Biography as a Crime Against the Spirit Every writer has an inner picture, an intuition or a sense
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Science as a Human Story: The Royal Society Recognizes Philip Ball
Philip Ball on winning the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture Philip Ball is the author of over 25 books, a writer, broadcaster, scientist, a
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Becoming The Idol: Classical Indian Dance
Amit Majmudar on Idolatry, Iconoclasm, and Bharatanatyam 1. My wife does classical Indian dance. I love to watch her practice because she turns
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Why Livy Matters
Ayelet Haimson Lushkov Some people have all the luck. Alexander the Great said that he loved his tutor, the philosopher Aristotle, more than
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