Virgilian Afterlives: The Classics in Question
Nandini Pandey on David Quint David Quint treats books as living organisms with kinship ties across ages and tongues. Take, for example, the biological
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The Cry of Merlin: Carl Jung and the Insanity of Reason
Gregory Shaw on Peter Kingsley I. For a long time, I hesitated to review Catafalque because I knew I could not respond in
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Star Wars East of Eden: The Rise of Skywalker
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Combating Antisemitism: The Role of Myth
Gilah Kletenik on Antisemitism All of my grandparents came to this country as refugees from antisemitism. My paternal grandmother survived Auschwitz-Birkenau and my
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Climate Change in the First Age of Globalization
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My Last Day As An Adjunct
Ed Simon on Adjuncting The day was bittersweet. It was my last time that I might teach a college course. A few months
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Is Capitalism Compatible with Christianity?
Christina McRorie on Kathryn Tanner Capitalism and Christianity were not always at such odds. In his 1904 classic The Protestant Ethic and the
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St. Paul and Islam: A Contemporary Perspective
Matthew V. Novenson on Shabbir Akhtar In this remarkable new commentary on the Letter of Paul to the Galatians, Shabbir Akhtar says that
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