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YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | Perhaps the only needed modification is to go in both directions, near and far at once, with gentle caution, a controlled and attentive tumble into the stars. Cosmic mobility: that is exactly what the two-mother idea has to offer, and it is needed.

EMILY OSBORNE | Unsurprisingly, manuscript traditions reveal that scribes were often stumped by the kennings they recorded or copied, and Hallfreðr’s seven-part kenning for Oláfr is no exception.

ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI | Language is in mortal peril, and we need to do something about it. The current trajectory of AI, left unchecked, will globalize the strongest weapon of colonialism...

Craig Hinkson In tribute to my friend and mentor, Brian Albert Gerrish, 1931-2025: To his excellence as a scholar and teacher, and kindness to me, his student Brian passed away on April 14 th during Holy Week this year at the age of 93. He and Bernard McGinn were my professors in historical theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School in the 1980s. Together, they provided the foundation for my work as an historical theologian and philosopher of religion. McGinn was

BORIS DRALYUK | My goal was to meet the text whole, to find a fitting tone of voice, to make up for inevitable losses with gains available only in English.

SAMUEL LONCAR | Nihilism is killing the university, and not for the first time. The Germany university was the crown jewel of European culture in the 19th-century, the pinnacle and vanguard of scientific progress, and the exemplar of what a wise partnership between state-funding and education could be...

ELIJAH PERSUES BLUMOV | Many poets wish to be prophets–Leconte was one.

PHILIP BALL | Someone quipped that if the ferry from Hamburg had sunk, so would have quantum physics for a generation...

ELIJAH PERSEUS BLUMOV | English is like a cavern filled with a dragon’s hoard of words from different places and times, and our writing thrives on the unparalleled richness of our diction, French is like a jewel box containing only a modest selection of precious stones...

BENJAMIN M. STUDEBAKER | MacIntyre and Geuss disagree, but their disagreement has been so very civil.

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...

TIMOTHY LARSEN | Potok had been invited to campus as part of an ambitious Wheaton College theater festival comprised of specially commissioned, one-act plays...