Philip Ball on Tom McLeish The British biologist Peter Medawar called science the art of the soluble. It’s an apt characterization, recognizing that
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Dear President-elect Joe Biden, You quoted Seamus Heaney, W. B. Yeats and Langston Hughes in your speeches, so we feel certain that you’re
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Geoffrey Khan, Hindy Najman, and Ishay Rosen-Zvi The Forum provides a home for substantial original and creative works of scholarship with the goal
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Matthew A. Benton on white evangelicals and racial justice American social unrest after George Floyd’s death (and Breonna Taylor’s, and Ahmaud Arbery’s, and
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John Inazu on Robert Louis Wilken The Supreme Court has strengthened an important constitutional protection for religious institutions. Known as the ministerial exception,
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Ari Blaff on Bari Weiss Fighting anti-Semitism rarely comes with fashion advice. However, The New York Times columnist Bari Weiss suggests otherwise in
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