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The Revival of Raced-Based Medicine: Eugenics, Religion, and the Black Experience
AUDREY FARLEY | In a 2018 Vogue magazine cover story, tennis star Serena Williams shared her harrowing experiences in the hospital...
Oct 18, 2019


Tripping to Enlightenment? Science, Religion, and Psychedelics
AUDREY FARLEY | In 1855, while on an expedition of the interior of Africa, the British missionary and explorer David Livingstone...
Jun 7, 2019


In Whose Image?
TRAVIS RYAN PICKELL | Last semester, a single, hypothetical, issue haunted all our discussions in my co-taught class...
Jan 4, 2019


The Atomist Age: Lucretius and the Poetry of Science
DAVID CURRELL | Imagine this review beginning with a little game...
Feb 2, 2018


Figuring the Unknown
CLAY GREENE | In 1959, a British novelist and chemist named Charles Percy Snow delivered a memorable lecture at the University of...
Sep 14, 2017


When Science was Literature and Literature was Science
CLIO DOYLE | Science was everywhere in the seventeenth century, especially in literature...
Sep 7, 2017


God on the Brain: Cognitive Science and Natural Theology
KAROLINA PROCHOWNIK | Cognitive science of religion (CSR) is a recent discipline that examines naturally evolved cognitive processes that...
Apr 22, 2017


Science vs. Religion and Other Modern Myths
SAMUEL LONCAR | If god is dead, myth is not...
Oct 7, 2016


How to Be Human in a Machine World
SAMUEL LONCAR | Humans seem to relish the prospect of their own extinction...
Dec 8, 2015


Islam’s Compatibility with Science
ROBERT MORRISON | Islam’s compatibility with science remains a prominent topic in public discourse...
May 27, 2014


Biology, Ethics, and the Persistence of Religion
PHILLIP SHERMAN | Chimpanzees are prone to extreme violence when confronted with a territorial dispute...
Dec 3, 2013


Atheism 3.0? Alain de Botton’s “School of Life” and Transhumanism
MICHAEL BURDETT | On February 23, 2012, in the Sheldonian Theatre at the University of Oxford, two figureheads of Modern Britain debated a topic fit for the location...
Oct 24, 2013
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