The Myth of Meritocracy
Timothy Larsen on Peter Mandler Peter Mandler’s truly impressive study, The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education since the Second
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History
The Secret Life of Saturn: Melancholia and the Warburg Institute
P.S. Makhlouf on a classic reissued A pernicious threat looms on the horizon. If, following Marsilio Ficino’s prescriptions, you are sure to arise
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Demons and Western Psychology: The Unbounded Potential of The Monastic Mind
Daniel Eastman on Inbar Graiver How were Christian monks in the late antique Near East like modern cognitive psychologists? This question lies at
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Grieving The Gods: Spirituality At The End of An Age
Keith Hackwood on Peter Kingsley Catafalque. A word to conjure with. Velvety on the tongue but dark and inclined downward somehow; formed in
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Are Evangelicals Their Own Worst Enemy?
Audrey Farley on Thomas Kidd As the coronavirus pandemic intensifies across the world, so does blame for the failed efforts to contain the
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The Ethnocentrism of Science: Race, Biology, and Bigoted Fictions
Matthew Mutter on Charles King Near the end of Gods of the Upper Air, Charles King plucks a 1958 letter from Margaret Mead’s
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A Muslim Reflection on COVID-19
Asad Dandia on Faith and COVID-19 In response to COVID-19, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order announcing that all businesses
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Islamic Art History: The Myth of Secularity
Wendy M.K. Shaw in Conversation Art history is often presented as a field cleansed of religious impulses during the process of modernity. This
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How Do Christians Practice Democracy?
Aaron Stauffer on Luke Bretherton Christian commitments make democratic politics spiritually significant. That’s why Luke Bretherton thinks Christians should to listen to their
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Diversifying Divine Providence in a Secular Age
Tyler R. Wittman on David Fergusson The strangest negotiations with fate happen on game day. What overzealous sports fan hasn’t questioned whether their
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