Tripping to Enlightenment? Science, Religion, and Psychedelics
Audrey Farley on Michael Pollan In 1855, while on an expedition of the interior of Africa, the British missionary and explorer David Livingstone
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Decolonizing Philosophy: Samuel Loncar Interviews Carlos Fraenkel and Peter Adamson about Islam, Reason, and Religion
We think of philosophy today as an austere, secular, and narrowly academic enterprise. Because of its secularity and associations with atheism, many religious
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The Wandering You: Jewish & American Identity
Erin Faigin on Shari Rabin’s Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America It was the opinion of Edwards, that the
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Antisemitism Is Our Problem
Editor Samuel Loncar Reflects on Christianity’s Antisemitic Legacy Tree of Life Synagogue Daniel Stein Joyce Fienberg Richard Gottfried Rose Mallinger Jerry Rabinowitz brothers,
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How Toni Morrison Hunts the White Whale
Dan Grossman on Toni Morrison’s The Origin of Others Why aren’t literary critics on the nightly news? America has become a battleground over what
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A Blur of Wings: The Diaphanous and the Dissonant in Political Poetry
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
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Beyond Borders: America, Immigration, and the Future of Information
Editor Samuel Loncar’s Vision for Freedom and Depth in the Digital Age What defines us is not our leaders or our borders. A
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The Atrocity of Sunsets: Sixty Days in Guatemala
There are more greens in this world than the eye can see, and between Lake Izabal and the Gulf of Honduras they ascend
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Does Jewish Logic Necessarily Lead to Israel?
Jacob Abolafia on the existential and political character of 20th-century American Jewish life O you youths, western youths, So impatient, full of action,
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I Am Not Your Negro: A Review
Ciahnan Darrell on race in America The lie called race makes Judases of us all, bleeding the human until all that remains is
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