Two Ships Passing at High Noon: Alasdair MacIntyre & Raymond Geuss
BENJAMIN M. STUDEBAKER | MacIntyre and Geuss disagree, but their disagreement has been so very civil.
Jun 1
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Past Issue
Eros, the Incarnation, and the Will to Wholly Live
SHANNON CRAIGO-SNELL | Theological attempts to subjugate eros have not prevented harm so much as inculcated shame...
Jun 1
Supernatural Polemics: Reason, Wonder, and Science with Carlos Eire & Peter Harrison, Part Two
CARLOS EIRE & PTER HARRSION | Partw Two of Marginalia's three-part cpnversation series...
May 18
Waiting for a Future: Jewish Refugees and Lisbon Cafe Culture
JAN BURZLAFF | Kaplan writes about people trying to stay human in inhuman conditions, of the psychic architecture required to withstand endless deferral...
May 18
The Highest Music: Socrates in Love
SAMUEL LONCAR | Socrates is so important, he is the measure by which we depict historically important individuals, beginning with Jesus of Nazareth...
Jun 1
The Ancient, Rabbinic Remedy for Dealing with Trickle-Truthers
YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | Trickle-truthing is a term for when someone responds to an allegation with a partial admission, and slowly increases the amount of truth in his or her response over time...
Jun 1
Current Issue
Meanings of Science
Some New World of Wonders: Levitation, Rationality, and Naturalism with Carlos Eire and Peter Harrison
“If we take a step back and look at the broad historical sweep and the cross cultural sweep, what we in the modern West find ourselves...
May 4
Conversations on the Plurality of World-views: A Response to Peter Harrison’s Some New World
PHILIP BALL | Conflicts can in fact be tremendously fertile, alerting us to areas where more work is needed . . .
Feb 9
Cultural Diversity and Scientific Truth: In Conversation with Philip Ball
PETER HARRISON | Unfortunately, the comforting narratives beloved by scientists fall well short of the standards of historical scholarship.
Feb 9
Featured Forum
A Forum on Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire
Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire is a master class in how to open a dense intellectual archive. . .
Nov 22, 2024
Reviews
The Highest Music: Socrates in Love
SAMUEL LONCAR | Socrates is so important, he is the measure by which we depict historically important individuals, beginning with Jesus of Nazareth...
Jun 1
Eros, the Incarnation, and the Will to Wholly Live
SHANNON CRAIGO-SNELL | Theological attempts to subjugate eros have not prevented harm so much as inculcated shame...
Jun 1
Marxist Modernism and the Crisis of Social Enlightenment: Gillian Rose, the Frankfurt School, and the Dialectic of Culture and Emancipation
NIGEL TUBBS | The members of the Frankfurt School were deeply interested in why social enlightenment failed in Europe...
May 18
Waiting for a Future: Jewish Refugees and Lisbon Cafe Culture
JAN BURZLAFF | Kaplan writes about people trying to stay human in inhuman conditions, of the psychic architecture required to withstand endless deferral...
May 18
Essays
Two Ships Passing at High Noon: Alasdair MacIntyre & Raymond Geuss
BENJAMIN M. STUDEBAKER | MacIntyre and Geuss disagree, but their disagreement has been so very civil.
Jun 1
The Ancient, Rabbinic Remedy for Dealing with Trickle-Truthers
YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | Trickle-truthing is a term for when someone responds to an allegation with a partial admission, and slowly increases the amount of truth in his or her response over time...
Jun 1
The Gift of Rabbi Chaim Potok
TIMOTHY LARSEN | Potok had been invited to campus as part of an ambitious Wheaton College theater festival comprised of specially commissioned, one-act plays...
Apr 20
The Mahabharata Trilogy: The Book of Killings
AMIT MAJMUDAR | Rama has periodic fits of weeping after his separation from Sita, and when he first discovers her kidnapping, he suffers...
Apr 6
Interviews
Supernatural Polemics: Reason, Wonder, and Science with Carlos Eire & Peter Harrison, Part Two
CARLOS EIRE & PTER HARRSION | Partw Two of Marginalia's three-part cpnversation series...
May 18
The Wisdom of the Gita
AMIT MAJMUDAR | The Gita is so infinite because it's one of the few—or only, to my knowledge—religious texts that takes as a given the idea that human beings all have different temperaments and that different things are true to different people, and it builds from there several different pathways to the divine.
May 4
Nobel Laureate, Paul Nurse, on the Future of Biology
SIR PAUL NURSE | Life is something that is able to self-assemble into a whole, behaving object. And that's what a cell is, too...
Apr 20
What Does it Mean to be Human? A Conversation with Erika Milam, Part 2
ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | Nobody disagreed on the data. But everybody disagreed on how to interpret the data. . .
Dec 7, 2024
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