Apocalypse is the Mother of Beauty – By Ed Simon
Consider, Boethius. He was a descendent of a noble Italian family, a beneficiary of a classical education, and in some ways the last
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Essays
The Death of God, Again by Ed Simon
The fullest affirmation of God comes in His denial. A young, attractive blonde woman with a fashionable pixie haircut sits anxiously in the
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Shakespeare Contra Nietzsche by Andrew Lanham
In the 400 years since Shakespeare’s death, one of his most influential afterlives has been in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, who thought
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Freud and the American Death Drive by Patrick Blanchfield
If ever a person could kill a joke, it was Sigmund Freud. “Here is an American anecdote: ‘Two not particularly scrupulous businessmen had
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Thomas Merton and the Future of Faith – By Christopher Pramuk
Merton dares us to imagine what is possible for God and for human beings In August of 1938, a young graduate student at
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A Word on Wilderness… By Oluwatomisin Oredein
A poem by Oluwatomisin Oredein She didn’t want wilderness to be this spirited thing. No, she was too wise for that, too aware
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Silence Won’t Protect You
Kelly J. Baker on academic freedom and the neoliberal academy Almost 39 years ago, Audre Lorde gave a talk on silence, language, and
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Monumental Problems: Freedom and Unity Come to Berlin – Daniela Blei
On April 13, 2011, Bernd Neumann, Germany’s Minister of Culture and a member of Angela Merkel’s ruling center-right party, made an announcement. After
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It is Time for the Analytic Philosophy of Judaism – By Samuel Lebens
Ask a professional philosopher to list three living philosophers who have contributed to Jewish philosophy. They will struggle. Jewish thought, in recent years,
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An Ex-Soviet Jew Looks at Syrian Refugees and America – by Margaret Litvin
Margaret Litvin on why there are no chosen peoples, only people making choices. If you embrace neither religion nor nationalism, you aren’t left
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