A Future for a Handful of Hours
Poet Rosebud Ben-Oni on the poetry of Yehuda Amichai, promises, and a love that keeps us strangers It was not until our very
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Essays
Beyond Borders: America, Immigration, and the Future of Information
Editor Samuel Loncar’s Vision for Freedom and Depth in the Digital Age What defines us is not our leaders or our borders. A
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“The Rights and Wrongs of Resistance”: Shakespeare and Politics
Andrew S. Brown on Peter Lake’s How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage On February 7, 1601, William Shakespeare was enlisted into a
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On Books and Earthquakes
The Long Read – Carla Baricz reflects on an Eastern European family affair with books A few days before New Year’s, I was
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The Atrocity of Sunsets: Sixty Days in Guatemala
There are more greens in this world than the eye can see, and between Lake Izabal and the Gulf of Honduras they ascend
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Sacrifice Revisited
Sacrifice has endured as a permanent fixture on our horizon. Its roots can be traced back to the mists of time before history
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An Unreliable Alchemy
Irina Dumitrescu on the enchantment of books, early reading experiences, and the stories that shape us One day the world shifted, and no
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The Alt-Right Apocalypse
Hindu Eschatology and the Reactionary Mind The election of Trump heralds a “Dark Age” of ignorance and violence, warn standard-bearers of centrist liberal
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Is Islamist violence any worse?
On the morning of September 16th, 1920, a horse-drawn carriage pulled up in front JP Morgan Bank on 23 Wall Street, right at
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Debts Owed to Death
Ed Simon on the Metaphysics of Trans-Humanism “We are all debts owed to death.” – Simonides of Ceos “I don’t want to achieve
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