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

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...

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...

ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | In the last forty years, Jane Goodall has become a saint of modern environmentalism, an unwavering voice calling. . .

MICHAEL HOBERMAN | The new nation that early American Jews helped to create wasn’t the fulfillment of a preexisting ideal or a club . . .

STEVEN E. ASCHHEIM | Time’s Echo is about the painful but also potentially liberating interactions between culture and catastrophe.

DANIEL WOOLF | Apart from the stories she tells, Bakewell builds a case for remembering—even in the shadow of Auschwitz, Rwanda, 9/11. . .

GIJS KRUIJTZER | Does the question of the origin of consequentialism matter to the question of how desirable a tool it is to us now?

Steven E. Aschheim | No singular Nietzschean paradigm has ever utterly dominated the philosophical, political and cultural landscape.