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A Blur of Wings: The Diaphanous and the Dissonant in Political Poetry

April 13, 2018April 13, 2018

Ciahnan Darrell reviews Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings is aggressively opaque. Written in a multitude of poetic forms, it draws ... [Read More]

Decolonizing Philosophy: Samuel Loncar Interviews Carlos Fraenkel and Peter Adamson about Islam, Reason, and Religion

March 2, 2018April 19, 2018

We think of philosophy today as an austere, secular, and narrowly academic enterprise. Because of its secularity and associations with atheism, many religious ... [Read More]

Beyond Borders: America, Immigration, and the Future of Information

February 2, 2018April 19, 2018

Editor Samuel Loncar’s Vision for Freedom and Depth in the Digital Age What defines us is not our leaders or our borders. A ... [Read More]

The Atrocity of Sunsets: Sixty Days in Guatemala

December 5, 2017December 8, 2017

There are more greens in this world than the eye can see, and between Lake Izabal and the Gulf of Honduras they ascend ... [Read More]

Does Jewish Logic Necessarily Lead to Israel?

November 24, 2017January 3, 2018

Jacob Abolafia on the existential and political character of 20th-century American Jewish life O you youths, western youths, So impatient, full of action, ... [Read More]

I Am Not Your Negro: A Review

April 10, 2017April 17, 2017

Ciahnan Darrell on race in America The lie called race makes Judases of us all, bleeding the human until all that remains is ... [Read More]

Freud and the American Death Drive by Patrick Blanchfield

May 7, 2016May 7, 2016

If ever a person could kill a joke, it was Sigmund Freud. “Here is an American anecdote: ‘Two not particularly scrupulous businessmen had ... [Read More]

Kevin Kruse Responds to the Forum

January 9, 2016January 9, 2016

Kevin M. Kruse in the One Nation Under God Forum ※ See the Forum’s homepage here. ※ I am deeply grateful to these four scholars ... [Read More]

Piety and Prosperity in Christian America – By Matthew Avery Sutton

December 16, 2015December 16, 2015

Matthew Avery Sutton in the One Nation Under God Forum ※ See the Forum’s homepage here. ※ Every month, hundreds of thousands of Americans ... [Read More]

The Invention of Corporate America’s Invention of Christian America – By Richard J. Callahan, Jr.

December 12, 2015December 16, 2015

Richard J. Callahan, Jr. in the One Nation Under God Forum ※ See the Forum’s homepage here. ※ When the Supreme Court adjudicated on ... [Read More]