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What Is Soft Matter?

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020
Philip Ball on Tom McLeish The British biologist Peter Medawar called science the art of the soluble. It’s an apt characterization, recognizing that ... [Read More]

Inaugural Poet? An Open Letter to President-elect Joe Biden

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020
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 ... [Read More]

Hebrew Philological Practices from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020
Geoffrey Khan, Hindy Najman, and Ishay Rosen-Zvi The Forum provides a home for substantial original and creative works of scholarship with the goal ... [Read More]

White Noise and White Silence: Evangelicals and Race

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020
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 ... [Read More]

Mushaira: Islam, Poetry, and South Asia

November 20, 2020
Abdul Manan Bhat on Ali Khan Mahmudabad Poetry gatherings have a magic of nearness, an immediacy and intimacy of sorts. The intimacy between ... [Read More]

Moroccan Jews: Perception and Reality

November 20, 2020
Ilan Benattar on Emily Benichou Gottreich The street signs are often tri-lingual: Arabic, French, and Amazigh, the latter being written in the Tifinagh ... [Read More]

“A Small Good Thing” An Interview with John Wilson

November 20, 2020December 10, 2020
Samuel Loncar in conversation with John Wilson In the early age of COVID-19, I got to sit down with John Wilson to talk ... [Read More]

The Ramayana and The Birth of Poetry

November 6, 2020December 16, 2020
Amit Majmudar on poetry and the incarnation of the divine. Consider Punch. He wears jester’s red and carries a stick the size of ... [Read More]

Preserving Religious Freedoms in a Pluralistic Society

November 6, 2020
John Inazu on Robert Louis Wilken The Supreme Court has strengthened an important constitutional protection for religious institutions. Known as the ministerial exception, ... [Read More]

Bari Weiss Says Wear Your Kippah

November 6, 2020December 4, 2020
Ari Blaff on Bari Weiss Fighting anti-Semitism rarely comes with fashion advice. However, The New York Times columnist Bari Weiss suggests otherwise in ... [Read More]

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