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YANIV FELLER | Good Jews was completed less than a year after Hamas’s attack and the war in Gaza, but Cohen’s work suggests that the pillars of philosemitism were already teetering.

CAITLIN DOYLE | In a society shaped by algorithms, technologies that cull and deliver information increasingly short-circuit and limit our memories, both personal and cultural. It’s more important than ever for poets and their readers to recognize how an attunement to the sounds of language can save the art form...

Advocates of identity politics on both the left and the right often insist that we are inescapably situated beings, marked by what has been given to us by history, culture, our bodies, and the power relations in which we are enmeshed. We are never free of givens, never purely self-determining.

ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI | We are here to witness and to wonder. Annie Dillard knew this.

PHILIP BALL | It was, in short, what felt like an immensely valuable exchange of a sort that too rarely happens.

For Plato and Aristotle, it was not only about coming together in the Academy or the Lyceum to discuss things, but it was also about creating a social space for this practice, about changing people’s perception of philosophy. . .

RACHEL HADAS | What about love as a balm for existential dread?

What is our motivating force today, and can we still hold on to a unified view of the history of philosophy?

JANE ZWART | Sometimes I find myself almost unable to write poems because I’m not in the right rooms in my mind. . .

YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | Like the modern skeptic, Rambam Rambam (more widely known as Maimonides) is wary of trends and is alive to the slipperiness of motivation. In his work Shemoneh Peraqim, he raises the spectres of misunderstanding and superficiality, and argues that there are, in fact, right and wrong reasons to engage in discomfort.

Frank Griffel is the Professor in the Study of Abrahamic Religions at the Faculty of Theology and Religion at Oxford University and Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall. This is a forum on his book, The Formation of Post-classical Philosophy in Islam (Oxford University Press). Part one.

AMIT MAJMUDAR | As a modern Indian, you might also hear about the epics in the news. That movie version you were eager to go see in the theater might have set off a controversy over whether the main characters were portrayed reverently enough; the public may have declared a boycott.