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Expanding our Conceptions of the Impossible: A Conversation with Carlos Eire and Peter Harrison, Part 3
If we're going to reject these phenomena, then we need to do it on the grounds of having seriously considered and weighed the evidence. We can't just dismiss them because they don't fit our worldview...
Jun 15


Reverence and Memory: A Conversation with Amit Majmudar
AMIT MAJMUDAR | What I seek to do is s to build on Steiner's legacy, because the reverence and memory that he showed for the Western tradition is what I hope to show for as many traditions as I can incorporate.
Jun 14


Two Ships Passing at High Noon: Alasdair MacIntyre & Raymond Geuss
BENJAMIN M. STUDEBAKER | MacIntyre and Geuss disagree, but their disagreement has been so very civil.
Jun 1


The Highest Music: Socrates in Love
SAMUEL LONCAR | Socrates is so important, he is the measure by which we depict historically important individuals, beginning with Jesus of Nazareth...
Jun 1


The Ancient, Rabbinic Remedy for Dealing with Trickle-Truthers
YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | Trickle-truthing is a term for when someone responds to an allegation with a partial admission, and slowly increases the amount of truth in his or her response over time...
Jun 1


Eros, the Incarnation, and the Will to Wholly Live
SHANNON CRAIGO-SNELL | Theological attempts to subjugate eros have not prevented harm so much as inculcated shame...
Jun 1


Marxist Modernism and the Crisis of Social Enlightenment: Gillian Rose, the Frankfurt School, and the Dialectic of Culture and Emancipation
NIGEL TUBBS | The members of the Frankfurt School were deeply interested in why social enlightenment failed in Europe...
May 18


Supernatural Polemics: Reason, Wonder, and Science with Carlos Eire & Peter Harrison, Part Two
CARLOS EIRE & PTER HARRSION | Partw Two of Marginalia's three-part cpnversation series...
May 18


Waiting for a Future: Jewish Refugees and Lisbon Cafe Culture
JAN BURZLAFF | Kaplan writes about people trying to stay human in inhuman conditions, of the psychic architecture required to withstand endless deferral...
May 18


Some New World of Wonders: Levitation, Rationality, and Naturalism with Carlos Eire and Peter Harrison
Naturalism is not intrinsic to a rational scientific understanding. Now, why we think that, then, is partly because we've constructed false narratives about conflicts between science and religion,
May 4


The Wisdom of the Gita
AMIT MAJMUDAR | The Gita is so infinite because it's one of the few—or only, to my knowledge—religious texts that takes as a given the idea that human beings all have different temperaments and that different things are true to different people, and it builds from there several different pathways to the divine.
May 4


Reading the Signs of Jewish Time: The Eschatological Elusiveness of the Apostle Paul
TIM O'LEARY | If we want to make progress towards perceiving Paul with historical accuracy, Mathew Novenson argues in Paul and Judaism: At the End of History, then we must try to identify the source of all this confusion...
May 4
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