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14 hours ago
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 . . .

14 hours ago
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.


15 hours ago
Hospitality and Hostility in Colonial South Asia
ELAINE FISHER | By pursuing this sort of boundary-crossing inquiry, we might come to better articulate how. . .

Dec 13, 2024
Google's Willow and the Future of Quantum Computing
PHILIP BALL | I’d put money on quantum computing becoming commercially viable and useful way before fusion does...

Dec 6, 2024
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 5, 2024
Friendship, Sovereignty, and Translation
ILYSE MORGENSTEIN FUERST |This matrix of friendship, sovereignty, and translation seems portable, applied across fields. . .


Nov 22, 2024
The Limits of Imperial Political Theology
SUPRIYA GANDHI | The recent global rise in authoritarianism and hyper-nationalism underscores the need for complex, nuanced histories...


Nov 22, 2024
Perilous Intimacies: Forum Introduction
J. BARTON SCOTT | Perilous Intimacies would seem a major step in the right direction—bringing new and welcome energy to...

Nov 22, 2024
Print Culture, Kabbalah, and Popularizing Jewish Mysticism
AVRAHAM ORIAH KELMAN | Prophetic visions, vast accounts of reincarnations, mythic conceptions of cyclical time, and messianic aspirations—


Nov 22, 2024
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 8, 2024
The Secular History of Religious Feelings: A Response
J. BARTON SCOTT | Polemic was the literary genre of choice for this intimately visceral boundary-work...

Nov 8, 2024
Who Speaks for Science? A Conversation with Erika Lorraine Milam
ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | There is a long tradition, of course, of writing for lay audiences about science...
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