What Is Soft Matter?
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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Inaugural Poet? An Open Letter to President-elect Joe Biden
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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Hebrew Philological Practices from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
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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White Noise and White Silence: Evangelicals and Race
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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Mushaira: Islam, Poetry, and South Asia
Abdul Manan Bhat on Ali Khan Mahmudabad Poetry gatherings have a magic of nearness, an immediacy and intimacy of sorts. The intimacy between
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Moroccan Jews: Perception and Reality
Ilan Benattar on Emily Benichou Gottreich The street signs are often tri-lingual: Arabic, French, and Amazigh, the latter being written in the Tifinagh
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“A Small Good Thing” An Interview with John Wilson
Samuel Loncar in conversation with John Wilson In the early age of COVID-19, I got to sit down with John Wilson to talk
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The Ramayana and The Birth of Poetry
Amit Majmudar on poetry and the incarnation of the divine. Consider Punch. He wears jester’s red and carries a stick the size of
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Preserving Religious Freedoms in a Pluralistic Society
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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Bari Weiss Says Wear Your Kippah
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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