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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...

NIGEL TUBBS | The members of the Frankfurt School were deeply interested in why social enlightenment failed in Europe...

CARLOS EIRE & PETER HARRSION | Partw Two of Marginalia's three-part cpnversation series...

JAN BURZLAFF | Kaplan writes about people trying to stay human in inhuman conditions, of the psychic architecture required to withstand endless deferral...

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,

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.

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...

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...