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AMIT MAJMUDAR | Just as "Once upon a time" primes the mind to receive a fairy tale, Aum primes the mind to receive transcendence and peace.

SARA AMERI MAHABADI | What we witnessed during COVID is not entirely new. Blaming others, attempting to dismantle the status quo, or...

 IRA GLICK & NEIL EISENBERG | The Jewish problem with athletics literally arose in the locker room.

VITTORIO HÖSLE | Where does the enthusiasm of the 18th century for the humanities come from?

DANIEL WOOLF | Two very different historians, two complementary visions of the past, and two equally valuable bequests to future . . .

AVI LOEB | We cannot jump off the train of time as we age. It keeps going, so we better look through its windows. . .

DEREK PENSLAR | For a professional historian, no life, no matter how absorbing and consequential, is removed from context. . .

YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | It’s not easy to befriend sages who have been dead for centuries, but only human attachment is strong . . .

BYRON BELITSOS | If we are to face these next few decades with courage, then we need be honest about what deeds we are all capable of ...

NOËL VALIS | Memory and death. The solid and the spectral. The murdered Spanish poet-playwright Federico García Lorca . . .

AMIT MAJMUDAR | An image of yourself, seen for what it is, should be regarded with alarm.

LORRAINE DASTON | Follow the science. But which science, whose science, today’s science or tomorrow’s?