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

LEAH ALPERN | Was the work feminist? Was it Orthodox? Was the combination a contradiction in terms?

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 . . .

PETER HARRISON | Studying how science actually works as a human enterprise—with fallible human actors—gives you a very different view. . .

SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ | The book’s focus on the pursuit of hidden wisdom and the quest to overcome human limitations . . .

DANIEL WOOLF | The titular “kingdom of darkness” derives from a biblical phrase originally referencing Satan’s dominion and . . .

PETER HARRISON | So there’s a kind of imperialistic assumption about the superiority of the intellectual apparatus that we’re operating . .

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 ...

Their conversation is lively and illuminating as they discuss the importance of teamwork for the NASA launch. . .

VIKA PECHERSKY | Dostoyevsky belonged to a rare group of thinkers who never submitted themselves to the crude power of the facts of life. .

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