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Virgilian Afterlives: The Classics in Question

January 31, 2020January 31, 2020
Nandini Pandey on David Quint David Quint treats books as living organisms with kinship ties across ages and tongues.  Take, for example, the biological ... [Read More]

The Cry of Merlin: Carl Jung and the Insanity of Reason 

January 17, 2020January 17, 2020
Gregory Shaw on Peter Kingsley I. For a long time, I hesitated to review Catafalque because I knew I could not respond in ... [Read More]

Star Wars East of Eden: The Rise of Skywalker

January 17, 2020May 19, 2020
Brad Holden on The Rise of Skywalker Early in The Rise of Skywalker Kylo Ren’s helmet is reforged. In the previous movie, The ... [Read More]

Combating Antisemitism: The Role of Myth

January 17, 2020January 17, 2020
Gilah Kletenik on Antisemitism All of my grandparents came to this country as refugees from antisemitism. My paternal grandmother survived Auschwitz-Birkenau and my ... [Read More]

Most Read Pieces of 2019

December 26, 2019December 26, 2019
When Jesus Was Jewish The late Larry W. Hurtado on Paula Fredriksen Tripping to Enlightenment? Science, Religion, and Psychedelics Audrey Farley on Michael ... [Read More]

Poetry for Grownups: The Responsible Self in Molly Spencer’s If the House

December 13, 2019December 13, 2019
Alexandra Barylski on Molly Spencer Well-deserved winner of the Brittingham Prize selected by Carl Phillips, If the house bears the mark of all ... [Read More]

Climate Change in the First Age of Globalization

December 13, 2019
Abigail Agresta on Sam White In 1961 Twilight Zone episode “The Midnight Sun,” a young artist struggles to survive in her New York ... [Read More]

My Last Day As An Adjunct

December 13, 2019December 15, 2019
Ed Simon on Adjuncting The day was bittersweet. It was my last time that I might teach a college course. A few months ... [Read More]

Is Capitalism Compatible with Christianity?

November 29, 2019December 6, 2019
Christina McRorie on Kathryn Tanner Capitalism and Christianity were not always at such odds. In his 1904 classic The Protestant Ethic and the ... [Read More]

St. Paul and Islam: A Contemporary Perspective

November 29, 2019December 2, 2019
Matthew V. Novenson on Shabbir Akhtar In this remarkable new commentary on the Letter of Paul to the Galatians, Shabbir Akhtar says that ... [Read More]

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