Are Humans in Crisis? The Becoming Human Podcast
MRB Interviews Editor, Samuel Loncar, about Becoming Human MRB: Your new show is called, Becoming Human: A Podcast for a Species in Crisis.
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Interviews
Islamic Art History: The Myth of Secularity
Wendy M.K. Shaw in Conversation Art history is often presented as a field cleansed of religious impulses during the process of modernity. This
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Science and Human Values: An Interview with Peter Harrison
Peter Harrison in Conversation Science is one of humanity’s greatest achievements, and it affects all of us. It has changed our world and
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Poetry: Politics, Religion, and Peace. An Interview with Pádraig Ó Tuama, Part Two
This conversation was held at Niebuhr Hall, and kindly co-sponsored by Yale Divinity School and the Yale Institute for Sacred Music. We invite
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Poetry: Politics, Religion, and Peace. An Interview with Pádraig Ó Tuama, Part One
Pádraig Ó Tuama in conversation In the ancient world, rigid divisions between healers, poets, and spiritual leaders did not exist as they do
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Ocean Vuong: Poetry, Bodies, and Stillness
Alexandra Barylski interviews Ocean Vuong Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong is the author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which was a New York Times Top 10 Book of
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Decolonizing Philosophy: Samuel Loncar Interviews Carlos Fraenkel and Peter Adamson about Islam, Reason, and Religion
We think of philosophy today as an austere, secular, and narrowly academic enterprise. Because of its secularity and associations with atheism, many religious
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Muslims and the Making of America
First Impressions #104: Amir Hussain on Muslims and the Making of America There has never been an America without Muslims, and they have
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Leonard Schwartz & Kathleen Eamon Toward a Poetics of the Middle East Crisis
Poet Leonard Schwartz and philosopher Kathleen Eamon discuss Schwartz’s new book “The New Babel: Toward a Poetics of the Middle East Crisis.”
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Israel, the Nation State of the Jewish People?
Simon Rabinovitch and Ruth Calderon discuss identity, equality, and the Jewish nation-state bill Between December 2014 and October 2015 Marginalia ran the “Defining
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