I’m Sorry, Salman – By Adnan Sarwar
The night Adnan Sarwar apologized for the fatwa He’s here to talk about time spent under the fatwa, and that is what you
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Place, Community, Kindness — and the Occasional Rage – By Thom Satterlee
Thom Satterlee on Wendell Berry’s This Day: New & Collected Sabbath Poems In the mid-1960s, after completing a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from
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A Material Mind? – By William Jaworski
William Jaworski on Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False What is the mind, and
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Justifying War: A Conversation with Nigel Biggar. Part Two.
Was the invasion of Iraq moral? [This is the second and final part of “Justifying War: A Conversation with Nigel Biggar.” Catch up
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Interview with Scott Elliott
Scott Elliott talks to MRB from Carmichael’s Bookstore in Louisville, KY Scott Elliott is Associate Professor of English at Whitman College and author
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Ann Patchett on Writing, Her Catholicism, and Her New Book
Ann Patchett talks with Charles Halton: “Writing that is clear, direct, and succinct is a great kindness to the reader.” Ann Patchett is
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Atheism 3.0? Alain de Botton’s “School of Life” and Transhumanism – By Michael Burdett
Michael Burdett on modern Atheism’s renewed interest in religion and the attraction of Transhumanism On February 23, 2012, in the Sheldonian Theatre at
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The Slaughter to Come: Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor – By Andrew Lanham
Andrew Lanham reads McCarthy’s bleak oeuvre and, finally, finds hope Physicists hypothesize something called a naked singularity, a black hole that spins so
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An Irish-American Zionist in the Age of Anti-Zionism – By James Loeffler
James Loeffler on Gil Troy’s Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight Against Zionism as Racism Only one of the thousands of UN resolutions issued by the
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Justifying War: A Conversation with Nigel Biggar. Part One.
What is a Just War? Professor Nigel Biggar is the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. He
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