Beauty and Truth Again? Lessons from Physics, Art, and Theology
Tom McLeish This essay is based on a public lecture given in May of 2022 at the Faraday Institute, Cambridge. PDF available here.
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Why Einstein Wouldn’t Be Published Today: A Conversation with Lorraine Daston, Part Two
Part One of our conversation is available here.The full conversation is available as PDF. As part of our Meanings of Science in the
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Inheriting Autonomy: The German Romantics Reconsidered
Frederick Beiser on Magnificent Rebels by Andrea Wulf Andrea Wulf’s book Magnificent Rebels is a portrait of the early romantic circle in Jena
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Does Science Need History? A Conversation with Lorraine Daston
Lorraine Daston in Conversation with Samuel Loncar As part of our Meanings of Science in the Modern World project, I had the honor
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Denmark Vesey: Conspiracy, Scripture, and Slave Rebellion
Bernard E. Powers Jr. on Jeremy Schipper’s, Denmark Vesey’s Bible The spring and summer months of 2022 marked two-hundred years since the discovery
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Can Weimar Germany Help Us Now?
Evan Kuehn on Humberto Beck If you want to draw a simplistic historical analogy that emphasizes the sheer evil of a person, there
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From Siberia to NASA: Confronting Sexism in Science
Philip Ball on A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman by Lindy Elkins-Tanton Space science is a long game. NASA’s Psyche
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How the Constitution Became America’s Bible
Taylor Jipp on Twentieth-Century Supreme Court Justice, Felix Frankfurter As Trump recently addressed his audience at the CPAC conference, he called them “the
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Sovereignty and Secularism in Modern Islam: A Response
SherAli Tareen Responds to Forum Contributors I want to begin by registering my profound gratitude to Ali Altaf Mian for his generous time
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Doctrinal Debates in Islam: Beyond Binaries
Megan Eaton Robb on SherAli Tareen SherAli Tareen’s book is a thrilling panoramic view of Barelwi-Deoband debates that animated the 19th-century reformist milieu
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