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The Gift of Rabbi Chaim Potok
TIMOTHY LARSEN | Potok had been invited to campus as part of an ambitious Wheaton College theater festival comprised of specially commissioned, one-act plays...
Apr 20, 2025


Thinking in Twilight: The Poetry of Hannah Arendt
KELLY M.S. SWOPE | The task for the poet of hard times is to look into the deepest part of the night without recoiling at what he sees...
Apr 20, 2025


Nobel Laureate, Paul Nurse, on the Future of Biology
SIR PAUL NURSE | Life is something that is able to self-assemble into a whole, behaving object. And that's what a cell is, too...
Apr 20, 2025


Jim Carrey Prophesied the Anxious AI Age. Did Anyone Listen?
SAMUEL LONCAR | Carrey’s book was largely ignored by critics and philosophers. Now its storyline is the surreal landscape of the news.
Apr 6, 2025


After the Genetic Paradigm: Why We Need a New Biology
PHILIP BALL | One sign of this shift is that biology is becoming more ready to accept and to speak of concepts long considered taboo...
Apr 5, 2025


Existential Chutzpah: Lessons in Liberation from the Passover Seder
TOBY HECHT | We are reminded that our suffering and persecution will end. We sing and our cups run over. We toast life and give gratitude..
Apr 5, 2025


The Meaningfulness of Being: What Remains Unthought in German Idealism
DENNIS SCHULTING | To be is to be intelligible, to be knowable. Being itself is logos, spirit, or a self-knowing...
Mar 23, 2025


Self-Conscious Liberalism
BENJAMIN BALL | Freedom, generosity, all of these core tenets of liberalism are already embedded in what it means to do democracy well...
Mar 23, 2025


The Evolution of Nostalgia
DANIEL WOOLF | Nostalgia does not deserve its somewhat bad reputation as misguided sentimentality, or as a fetishistic celebration of ...
Mar 20, 2025


The Politics of Intimacy and the Intimacy of Politics: A Response
SHERALI TAREEN | the question of what is the role of the body in how Muslim life must organize itself in relation to non-Muslim others ...
Mar 9, 2025


Burnt by the Rabbis: Lessons from the Supernatural Yeshiva
YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | Let us resist any transformation of our bewilderment at their behavior into diagnosis...
Mar 9, 2025


The Role of Mystery and Doubt in Scientific Understanding
JOSHUA RICHARDSON | De Regt’s central theory is psychologistic, meaning that it emphasizes the subjective, psychological role...
Mar 9, 2025
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