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A Good Death
A Good Death By Whitney A. Bauman Many of us in “western” cultures are steeped in ethical and aesthetic questions about “the good life.” What is it and who has access to it? How ought we organize Read more
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Why Physics Needs Poetry
Why Physics Needs Poetry By Alissa Jones Nelson “Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe. We need the languages of both science and poetry to save us from merely stockpiling endless ‘information’ that fails Read more
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Why Be Virtuous?
Why Be Virtuous? By F. Samuel Brainard In the final days of October, more than a dozen pipe bombs were sent by a political fanatic to members of the opposing political party in the U.S.; two African-Americans were shot and Read more
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Accountability or Objectivity? Being a Scholar in an Age of Crisis
Accountability or Objectivity? By Kocku von Stuckrad Are scholars the guardians of the Grail of Truth? Is there a truth that scholars have to insist on over against the “invention of facts” by some politicians and Read more
Art and Fiction
Cleo Mikutta: // \\, Part 2
// \\ By Cleo Mikutta – II – // ‘You remind me of him,’ she said quietly, speaking to him through the flames, saying the words more to herself than to him. He watched her, from the other side Read more
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Art-Work in the Age of Trump
Art-Work in the Age of Trump By Rachel Alliston Last August, at a Counterpoint conference in Berlin, Anthea Butler gave a keynote speech on the intersection of religious practice, religious freedom, and the secular state. At one point, drawing on Read more
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On Fighting Well
On Fighting Well By John Thatamanil Can we find certain convictions abhorrent without abhorring those who subscribe to them? Put crudely, can we refuse to hate the haters? If it is possible, is it also obligatory? If Mohandas Gandhi and Read more
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Against Academic Oligarchy
Against Academic Oligarchy By Zairong Xiang As usual, I found myself in a room full of scholars from a variety of demographic backgrounds as well as “ranks” in the academic ladder. The topic was the postcolonial trauma of the world. Read more
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The Flint Knapper Who Cried “Snake”
The Flint Knapper Who Cried “Snake” By Sarah Pike During the Closing Circle of Rabbitstick Primitive Skills Gathering, a flint knapper (who shapes rocks by hand to make stone tools) asked the participants, “How do you react if someone in Read more
Art and Fiction
Cleo Mikutta: \\ //, Part 4
\\ // By Cleo Mikutta – IV – \\ Her eyes rest on the pins, there on the wooden floor, sharp, metallic bodies, there on the floor, there, in the plastic box, there, with colorful heads. Pink, yellow, green, Read more