Philosophy & Religion

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

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  But Is It Boring?

  Andrew Stojkovich reviews Andreas Elpidorou’s “The Anatomy of Boredom.”

  Andrew StojkovichJul 1

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  Ghassan Kanafani’s “Guerrilla Rhetoric,” Then and Now

  Jay Murphy reviews “Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings,” a collection of newly translated essays by the influential Palestinian philosopher, author, and activist.

  Jay MurphyJun 28

  • Philosophy & Religion

  • Politics

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  The Politics of Apoliticism

  Kieran Setiya reviews Christoph Schuringa’s “A Social History of Analytic Philosophy.”

  Kieran SetiyaJun 10

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  He’s a Cretin but We’ll Manage Him

  Paul North finds a prescient analysis of the end of the American republic in Karl Marx’s essay “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.”

  Paul NorthMay 30

  • Philosophy & Religion

  • Politics

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  The Rapturous Power of Words

  Sarah Moorhouse explores Edward Wilson-Lee’s “The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Sublime Language.”

  Sarah MoorhouseMay 24

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  Ross Douthat’s Tame God

  Ed Simon considers the invitation from Ross Douthat to believe in a deity.

  Ed SimonMay 23

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  Not an Enlightened Age

  James Davison Hunter considers Peter Harrison’s “Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age.”

  James Davison HunterMar 30

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  The Destructive Character: A Cover

  Robert Pogue Harrison offers a recasting of Walter Benjamin’s 1931 essay for our own time.

  Walter Benjamin, Robert Pogue HarrisonMar 29

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  But Why Would You Want to Self-Transcend Through Mysticism?

  Dan Turello considers Vladimir Miskovic and Steven Jay Lynn’s “Dreaming Reality: How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness.”

  Dan TurelloMar 26

  • Science & Technology

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  It’s All Greek and yet Frighteningly Comprehensible.

  Robert Zaretsky and Michael Barnes consider Thucydides’s “History of the Peloponnesian War.”

  Robert Zaretsky, Michael BarnesMar 23

  • History

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  Eloquent Silence

  David E. Cooper reviews Pico Iyer’s “Aflame: Learning from Silence.”

  David E. CooperMar 22

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  The Land that Secretes Light

  Dan Beachy-Quick reviews Joseph Donahue’s “Terra Lucida XIII–XXI.”

  Dan Beachy-QuickJan 24

  • Poetry

  • Philosophy & Religion