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Living Systems are Not Like Machines: A Conversation with Nobel Laureate, Paul Nurse, Part Two
SIR PAUL NURSE | Human beings like things to be ordered. That's how we are. But maybe cells and living things are more sloppy. Perhaps the cell has to be sloppy to avoid, as I said, getting stuck...
Jul 27


Of Beauty and Cruelty: A Brief Tour of the French Poetic Sublime, Part Two
ELIJAH PERSUES BLUMOV | Many poets wish to be prophets–Leconte was one.
Jul 26


Expanding our Conceptions of the Impossible: A Converstaion with Carlos Eire and Peter Harrison, Part 3
If we're going to reject these phenomena, then we need to do it on the grounds of having seriously considered and weighed the evidence. We can't just dismiss them because they don't fit our worldview...
Jun 15


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


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


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


Sovereignty in Ruins: Rethinking Inter-religious Intimacies in India and Sudan
NOAH SALOMON | The question of religious difference became the question of the long 20th century...
Mar 9


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


The Outrage of Modernity: Loss of the Spiritual Self and the Rise of State Rule
ANAND VIVEK TANEJA | Those who would rule over the country and bring justice and order to it had first to rule themselves...
Oct 25, 2024


The Spirit of '76: A Jewish Perspective on the American Revolution
MICHAEL HOBERMAN | The new nation that early American Jews helped to create wasn’t the fulfillment of a preexisting ideal or a club . . .
Sep 27, 2024


A Forum on Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India
Slandering the Sacred by J. Barton Scott is a landmark study in the field of religion and South Asia. . .
Sep 13, 2024


Celebrating 7 Years of Our Human-Centered Vision
Summer 2024 | Celebrating 7 years of our human-centered vision.
Jun 21, 2024
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