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LUKE FISCHER | Humanity is caught within the tension of light and dark, heaven and earth, the eternal and time, divinity and mortality. In its philosophical and mystical tenor and its meditations on the relation between the timeless and time...

SIR PAUL NURSE | Human beings like things to be ordered. That's how we are. But maybe cells and living things are more sloppy. Perhaps the cell has to be sloppy to avoid, as I said, getting stuck...

SAMUEL LONCAR | Supersessionism thus fights its enemy not with swords, destined to become ploughshares, but with time itself. The very nature of history is against the Jews, because they have not adapted to the new time inaugurated by Christianity...

ELIJAH PERSUES BLUMOV | Many poets wish to be prophets–Leconte was one.

PHILIP BALL | Someone quipped that if the ferry from Hamburg had sunk, so would have quantum physics for a generation...

ELIJAH PERSEUS BLUMOV | English is like a cavern filled with a dragon’s hoard of words from different places and times, and our writing thrives on the unparalleled richness of our diction, French is like a jewel box containing only a modest selection of precious stones...

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...

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.

BENJAMIN M. STUDEBAKER | MacIntyre and Geuss disagree, but their disagreement has been so very civil.

SAMUEL LONCAR | Socrates is so important, he is the measure by which we depict historically important individuals, beginning with Jesus of Nazareth...

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...

SHANNON CRAIGO-SNELL | Theological attempts to subjugate eros have not prevented harm so much as inculcated shame...