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AQSA IJAZ | The classics are never as settled as the shelves on which we place them. They return whenever the present discovers that its most urgent questions have already been imagined in the stories of the past. We may think of our age as enthralled by novelty, and its writers as burdened by what Harold Bloom called the “anxiety of influence,” yet contemporary culture remains crowded with ancient lovers, forgotten victims, maligned queens, and canonical heroes demanding to

KELLY M.S. SWOPE | Lives like his were proof that the German philosophy of freedom planted real roots in American institutions before and after the War over Slavery.

Bruce Gordon, Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Yale Divinity School

EMILY OSBORNE | Unsurprisingly, manuscript traditions reveal that scribes were often stumped by the kennings they recorded or copied, and Hallfreðr’s seven-part kenning for Oláfr is no exception.

ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI | Language is in mortal peril, and we need to do something about it. The current trajectory of AI, left unchecked, will globalize the strongest weapon of colonialism...

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

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...

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

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...

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..