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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Essays
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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The NASA Psyche Project: A Story from The Intermission
Lindy Elkins-Tanton Right now, it seems that all our narratives are narratives of guilt and fear. Climate change. The pandemic. Pollution. Poverty. Division.
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Ireland: Sacred Spaces and The Pursuit of New Gods
Crawford Gribben on Ireland’s Ancient Religious Traditions O ne-night last week, I raised the blind and looked out of my bedroom window towards
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The Future of Secularism
The future of liberalism lies in secularism. What is needed for a renaissance in liberalism worldwide is a spiritual revival in secularism itself. To put this another way, the current crisis in values after the Death of God could be thought of as the birth pangs of the creation of the first genuinely secular civilization in human history.
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Why Joseph Smith Matters
John G. Turner on Mormonism J oseph Smith may not be a name that matters to you, but he matters a great deal
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What’s So Jewish about Hellenistic Judaism?
Paul Michael Kurtz on the Complexities of Jewish Identity I f “all men are either Jews or Greeks,” as Heinrich Heine had it,
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Easter and the Parable of the Sower
Sarah Ruden on Easter, the World’s End, and Hope T he shock of mourning in the face of the world going on as
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