Science as Culture and the Science of Meaning
Philip Ball Read as aPDF. Conflict or Consilience? The sciences and the arts/humanities often look like rivals who want to get along but
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“A Small Good Thing” An Interview with John Wilson
Samuel Loncar in conversation with John Wilson In the early age of COVID-19, I got to sit down with John Wilson to talk
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On Myths and Moneylenders
Rowan Dorin on The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender In the century following the Black Death, new Jewish communities sprang up in
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The Art of Poetry: To Turn Our Grief to Music
Andrew Mossin on Rachel Tzvia Back “Poetry makes nothing happen.” W.H. Auden’s oft-quoted line appears in his 1940 poem, “In Memory of W.B.
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Death at the Border: A Theologian’s Perspective on Migration
Paul Giffiths’ Monthly Column on Politics and Society from a Christian Perspective This short essay, the first of an occasional series for publication
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Jewish Identity and A Divided America
Shari Rabin on Michael Hoberman Public consciousness, popular culture, and historical scholarship have lavished attention and praise on the Lower East Side immigrant
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Cafe Culture, Judaism, and World Making
Avery Robinson Reviews Shachar Pinsker Well over a century before “pumpkin spice latte” was uttered in Europe, coffeehouses were in the vanguard of Western
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Jewish Girls in Medieval Egypt
Amit Gvaryahu Reviews Eve Krakowski’s Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt Eve Krakowski’s masterful new book shows how minority community concerns are not
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A Blur of Wings: The Diaphanous and the Dissonant in Political Poetry
Ciahnan Darrell reviews Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings is aggressively opaque. Written in a multitude of poetic forms, it draws
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Urban Afterlives – by Dana Robinson
Dana Robinson on Hendrik W. Dey’s Afterlife of the Roman City The fall of Rome was an urban affair. Alaric’s sack of the
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