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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, 2025


Supernatural Polemics: Reason, Wonder, and Science with Carlos Eire & Peter Harrison, Part Two
CARLOS EIRE & PETER HARRSION | Partw Two of Marginalia's three-part cpnversation series...
May 18, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


The Gift of Rabbi Chaim Potok
TIMOTHY LARSEN | Potok had been invited to campus as part of an ambitious Wheaton College theater festival comprised of specially commissioned, one-act plays...
Apr 20, 2025


Thinking in Twilight: The Poetry of Hannah Arendt
KELLY M.S. SWOPE | The task for the poet of hard times is to look into the deepest part of the night without recoiling at what he sees...
Apr 20, 2025


Nobel Laureate, Paul Nurse, on the Future of Biology
SIR PAUL NURSE | Life is something that is able to self-assemble into a whole, behaving object. And that's what a cell is, too...
Apr 20, 2025


The Mahabharata Trilogy: The Book of Killings
AMIT MAJMUDAR | Rama has periodic fits of weeping after his separation from Sita, and when he first discovers her kidnapping, he suffers...
Apr 6, 2025


Jim Carrey Prophesied the Anxious AI Age. Did Anyone Listen?
SAMUEL LONCAR | Carrey’s book was largely ignored by critics and philosophers. Now its storyline is the surreal landscape of the news.
Apr 6, 2025


After the Genetic Paradigm: Why We Need a New Biology
PHILIP BALL | One sign of this shift is that biology is becoming more ready to accept and to speak of concepts long considered taboo...
Apr 6, 2025
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