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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..

PHILIP BALL | Conflicts can in fact be tremendously fertile, alerting us to areas where more work is needed . . .

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