Islam and the Enlightenment
Irfan Ahmad on Islam today If Immanuel Kant was the “Papa Enlightenment Subject,” a phrase used by anthropologist William Mazzarella, literary critic Edward
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Essays
The Religion of Economics
Benedikt Koehler on the Enlightenment, Religion, and Mosaic Economics The Enlightenment purged economics of religion. This began when John Locke claimed that everyone
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Why George MacDonald Matters
Timothy Larsen on the Victorian writer Once upon a time, when young princesses were still plentiful, there nevertheless was a scarcity of children’s
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Medieval Wisdom for Mental Health in COVID-19
Jenna Phillips on Boccaccio in Quarantine In the wake of the plague outbreak of the mid-fourteenth century, a Florentine physician named Tommaso del
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The Many True Meanings of Christmas
Timothy Larsen on Christmas While the season of Christmas often brings out the best in people, somehow the subject of Christmas does not.
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Inaugural Poet? An Open Letter to President-elect Joe Biden
Dear President-elect Joe Biden, You quoted Seamus Heaney, W. B. Yeats and Langston Hughes in your speeches, so we feel certain that you’re
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White Noise and White Silence: Evangelicals and Race
Matthew A. Benton on white evangelicals and racial justice American social unrest after George Floyd’s death (and Breonna Taylor’s, and Ahmaud Arbery’s, and
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The Ramayana and The Birth of Poetry
Amit Majmudar on poetry and the incarnation of the divine. Consider Punch. He wears jester’s red and carries a stick the size of
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The Interim World: The Poetics of Tuvia Ruebner
Rachel Tzvia Back on Tuvia Ruebner I’ve been intensely and intimately engaged with the poetry of Tuvia Ruebner as his English language translator
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The Trials and Tribulations of A New Jewish Canon
Claire E. Sufrin and Yehuda Kurtzer on our relation to the past For five years, we have been working on a book project
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