How Special Is Science?
Philip Ball on writing about science in the Covid-19 pandemic Science is special. Its central idea – collecting data about the real world,
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Essays
David Foster Wallace: Genius?
Samuel Liu on David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace had, in the best and worst sense of this word, a divine compulsion, a
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Why Philo Matters
Gregory E. Sterling on Philo of Alexandria “What should I say about Philo whom critics call…the ‘Jewish Plato’?” So said Saint Jerome, who
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America’s Most Cherished and Controversial Right
Ryan T. Woods on Free Speech Of all our democratic values, Americans are most devoted to free speech. A 2015 Rasmussen poll revealed
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When Secular Laws and Religious Convictions Collide
Perry Dane on religious freedom, current conflicts, and Martin Buber The recent challenges by some churches and synagogues to COVID related state restrictions
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The Christian Origins of Racism
M. Lindsay Kaplan on Antisemitism to Racism Medieval claims about the Jews’ criminal role in the crucifixion consigned them to an enslaved status,
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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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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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