Sacrifice Revisited
Sacrifice has endured as a permanent fixture on our horizon. Its roots can be traced back to the mists of time before history
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Essays
An Unreliable Alchemy
Irina Dumitrescu on the enchantment of books, early reading experiences, and the stories that shape us One day the world shifted, and no
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The Alt-Right Apocalypse
Blake Smith in Hindu Eschatology and the Reactionary Mind The election of Trump heralds a “Dark Age” of ignorance and violence, warn standard-bearers
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Is Islamist violence any worse?
On the morning of September 16th, 1920, a horse-drawn carriage pulled up in front JP Morgan Bank on 23 Wall Street, right at
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Debts Owed to Death
Ed Simon on the Metaphysics of Trans-Humanism “We are all debts owed to death.” – Simonides of Ceos “I don’t want to achieve
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Can the City Save Civic Life?
In 1995, Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam sounded the alarm. Americans were withdrawing from one another; the social and fraternal organizations that formed the bedrock
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Violence and Peace in Islam
Lamin Sanneh on Islam’s under-appreciated potential for peace What’s Wrong with Islam? The many attempts to explain what went wrong with the Muslim
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The Gorka Affair
Jacob Labendz on why two Jewish magazines went to war over a Trump appointee “Trump is not Hitler.” Over the past year, I
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God’s Business: Thinking About Religion Through Economics
Nile Green applies economic thinking to matters of faith Smartphone in hand, with a carefully trimmed beard and a constant eye on his
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The Crucified God: A Death in Pictures – by Ed Simon
Ed Simon asks, What’s so Good about Friday? “That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood – Again, in spite of that, we
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