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Stop Looking at Yourself: On the Dangers of Mirrors and Selfies

Stop Looking at Yourself: On the Dangers of Mirrors and Selfies

Stop Looking at Yourself: On the Dangers of Mirrors and Selfies

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

Sep 15, 2023

Jewish Chess Masters, Religion, and Mental Health

Jewish Chess Masters, Religion, and Mental Health

Jewish Chess Masters, Religion, and Mental Health

NEIL EISENBERG & IRA D. GLICK | Given the lack of prohibition by Maimonides and the outright recommendation by the Sefer Hassidim, chess...

Sep 14, 2023

Science as Culture and the Science of Meaning

Science as Culture and the Science of Meaning

Science as Culture and the Science of Meaning

PHILIP BALL | The sciences and the arts/humanities often look like rivals who want to get along but

Meanings of Science

Jun 23, 2023

Indigenous Cultures and the Imperial History of Britain’s Empire

Indigenous Cultures and the Imperial History of Britain’s Empire

Indigenous Cultures and the Imperial History of Britain’s Empire

MADELINE GRIMM | Historians have long struggled to tell the complete story of the British empire,

Jun 22, 2023

Charting the Atlas of the Heart: Why Humans Need a Language of Emotions

Charting the Atlas of the Heart: Why Humans Need a Language of Emotions

Charting the Atlas of the Heart: Why Humans Need a Language of Emotions

THOMAS HARRISON | The vastness of the human sea of feelings is what first inspires this literary journey,

Jun 8, 2023

Writing the Black Death: Jewish Responses to Italy’s Plague Years

Writing the Black Death: Jewish Responses to Italy’s Plague Years

Writing the Black Death: Jewish Responses to Italy’s Plague Years

JOSHUA TEPLITSKY | With its close readings and reconstructions that are at once imaginative and provocatively tempting, the book

Jun 8, 2023

Theology and Philosophy after al-Ghazali: The End of Philosophy in Islam?

Theology and Philosophy after al-Ghazali: The End of Philosophy in Islam?

Theology and Philosophy after al-Ghazali: The End of Philosophy in Islam?

HASAN HAMEED | Griffel’s strategy is simple. The best evidence demonstrating that philosophy did not die after Ghazali

May 25, 2023

Mary Wollstonecraft: Interlocutor for Feminists Today?

Mary Wollstonecraft: Interlocutor for Feminists Today?

Mary Wollstonecraft: Interlocutor for Feminists Today?

MARGARET D. KAMITSUKA | Wollstonecraft can be a serious feminist interlocutor without being a feminist saint.

May 19, 2023

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