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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?

IAIN MCGILCHRIST | Philosophy and science alike take as their ultimate aim to enlarge our understanding of Science & Humanism

ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI | Space is our birthright. So it is imperative that we have some of our own.

YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI |The way to cure bulmos, asserts the Talmud, is to feed the sufferer whatever they demand—even forbidden food

Tom McLeish In memoriam: Professor Tom McLeish FRS (May 1, 1962 – February 27, 2023). Read as a PDF For at least a century, both public...

MARK C. TAYLOR | At the age of ninety, Cormac McCarthy has published a remarkable two-volume novel that is, in my judgment, his best work.

BRAD HOLDEN | I should start with a confession—two, actually. The first is that I very recently purchased tickets for the lottery.