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Sabbath Stew, Pastries, and the Past: A Culinary History of Hungarian Jews
Avery Robinson In 1895, Adolf Ágai wrote an article in the Jewish weekly Egyenlőség (Equality) in which he waxes rhapsodic about Jewish...
Apr 28, 2023


Science and Metaphysics: A Family Quarrel?
IAIN MCGILCHRIST | Philosophy and science alike take as their ultimate aim to enlarge our understanding of Science & Humanism
Apr 14, 2023


A Nook of Her Own: Virginia Woolf, Class, and the Creative Life
ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI | Space is our birthright. So it is imperative that we have some of our own.
Apr 14, 2023


Science and the Idea of Progress
PETER HARRISON | The history of science, wrote George Sarton in 1936, is “the only history which can illustrate the progress
Mar 30, 2023


Forbidden Hunger: The Rabbis’ Path to Wellness
YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI |The way to cure bulmos, asserts the Talmud, is to feed the sufferer whatever they demand—even forbidden food
Mar 16, 2023


From Nuclear Radiology to The Bhagavad Gita: An Interview with Amit Majmudar
AMIT MAJMUDAR | So anyone can approach the Gita without feeling their particular religious background or faith affiliation is under attack.
Mar 16, 2023


Science, Imagination, and Poetry
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...
Mar 3, 2023


The Ambiguities of Being Muslim and Modern
RUSHAIN ABBASI | So much and yet so little is conveyed by the word “modernity.” On the one hand, it possesses the sovereign-like capacity to
Mar 3, 2023


Cormac McCarthy: The End of the Road
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.
Feb 17, 2023


Science and the Healing of the World: A Conversation with Tom McLeish, Part Two
TOM McLEISH | Science is more about questions than answers, and that the critical imaginative move in science is to conceive of the creative
Feb 16, 2023


Winning the Lottery and Learning to Dream
BRAD HOLDEN | I should start with a confession—two, actually. The first is that I very recently purchased tickets for the lottery.
Feb 3, 2023


Science Is a Long Story: A Conversation with Tom McLeish, Part One
TOM McLEISH | My grandmother actually was an important influence on me. She had done a degree at London University in the twenties
Feb 2, 2023
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