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Ross Douthat’s Tame God
Ed Simon considers the invitation from Ross Douthat to believe in a deity.
Philosophy & Religion
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry
Not an Enlightened Age
James Davison Hunter considers Peter Harrison’s “Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age.”
The Destructive Character: A Cover
Robert Pogue Harrison offers a recasting of Walter Benjamin’s 1931 essay for our own time.
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.”
It’s All Greek and yet Frighteningly Comprehensible.
Robert Zaretsky and Michael Barnes consider Thucydides’s “History of the Peloponnesian War.”
Eloquent Silence
David E. Cooper reviews Pico Iyer’s “Aflame: Learning from Silence.”
The Land that Secretes Light
Dan Beachy-Quick reviews Joseph Donahue’s “Terra Lucida XIII–XXI.”
What Would Becky Buy?
Tom Zoellner considers Leah Payne’s “God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music.”
From Woke to Solidarity
Michael S. Roth reviews Musa al-Gharbi’s “We Have Never Been Woke” and James Davison Hunter’s “Democracy and Solidarity.”
A Place, Not a Refuge
Katie Peterson reviews “What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt,” translated and edited by Samantha Rose Hill with Genese Grill.
The Gospel According to Jordan
Michael Ledger-Lomas reviews Jordan Peterson’s “We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine.”
Philosophical Dead Ends
John Dupré reviews Richard Dawkins’s “The Genetic Book of the Dead” and Sara Imari Walker’s “Life as No One Knows It.”
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