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PHILIP BALL | I’d put money on quantum computing becoming commercially viable and useful way before fusion does...

ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | Nobody disagreed on the data. But everybody disagreed on how to interpret the data. . .

ILYSE MORGENSTEIN FUERST |This matrix of friendship, sovereignty, and translation seems portable, applied across fields. . .

SUPRIYA GANDHI | The recent global rise in authoritarianism and hyper-nationalism underscores the need for complex, nuanced histories...

J. BARTON SCOTT | Perilous Intimacies would seem a major step in the right direction—bringing new and welcome energy to...

AVRAHAM ORIAH KELMAN | Prophetic visions, vast accounts of reincarnations, mythic conceptions of cyclical time, and messianic aspirations—

Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire is a master class in how to open a dense intellectual archive. . .

J. BARTON SCOTT | Polemic was the literary genre of choice for this intimately visceral boundary-work...

ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | There is a long tradition, of course, of writing for lay audiences about science...

SAMUEL LONCAR| Irony traces the curve of human existence striving to be a straight line...

DEONNIE MOODIE | Circulations of anti-priestcraft produced the ideal of the liberal subject that would not require external rule ...

YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | Reacting out of unconscious patterns makes us poor judges, and we are all judges whether we wish to be or not. . .