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TIMOTHY LARSEN | Potok had been invited to campus as part of an ambitious Wheaton College theater festival comprised of specially commissioned, one-act plays...

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...

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...

AMIT MAJMUDAR | Rama has periodic fits of weeping after his separation from Sita, and when he first discovers her kidnapping, he suffers...

SAMUEL LONCAR | Carrey’s book was largely ignored by critics and philosophers. Now its storyline is the surreal landscape of the news.

PHILIP BALL | One sign of this shift is that biology is becoming more ready to accept and to speak of concepts long considered taboo...

TOBY HECHT | We are reminded that our suffering and persecution will end. We sing and our cups run over. We toast life and give gratitude..

DENNIS SCHULTING | To be is to be intelligible, to be knowable. Being itself is logos, spirit, or a self-knowing...

BENJAMIN BALL | Freedom, generosity, all of these core tenets of liberalism are already embedded in what it means to do democracy well...

DANIEL WOOLF | Nostalgia does not deserve its somewhat bad reputation as misguided sentimentality, or as a fetishistic celebration of ...

SHERALI TAREEN | the question of what is the role of the body in how Muslim life must organize itself in relation to non-Muslim others ...

YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | Let us resist any transformation of our bewilderment at their behavior into diagnosis...