While living in an internment camp in Vichy France, Alexander Grothendieck was tutored in mathematics by another prisoner, a girl named Maria. Maria taught Grothendieck, who was twelve, the definition
Gorbachev and Reagan at the signing of the INF Treaty. Photo: Reagan National Library. Mikhail Gorbachev presented a figure of Greek tragedy proportions. Possessing good intentions and intellectual cu
[Translated by Alireza Doostdar.] [2] For Zhina, for Niloofar, for Elaheh, for Mahsa, for Elmira, and for those whose names I have yet to call. Is the uprising in Iran a feminist revolution? This essa
Ecco Homo 2022 Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, speaks a better word. —Heb. 12.24 Jesus is the new and better creation: light dividing darkness, heavens opened wide, deep answering deep, dead se
Matt Crump 2022-05-26 Last knit: 2022-05-28 index.Rmd Part I: I got in Last semester I witnessed the worst cheating in a course I’ve ever seen. And, I’ve seen stuff. I’m debating right now whether or
Master of San Esteve of Andorra “Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples” * In the previous posts (pt 1 , pt 2) , I looked briefly at Numbers 11 and tried to show that it can be and has been read alo
And then – what? I’m still not sure, exactly. The hard edges hemming in our reality, once blurred, regained their solidity. Slowly, all but imperceptibly, kairos gave way once more to chronos ; it was
The critic Raymond Williams once wrote that every historical period has its own “structure of feeling.” How everything seemed in the nineteen-sixties, the way the Victorians understood one another, th
philosophy is a living science, and so philosophers are taught, or rather encouraged, to seek answers to open questions Eric Schliesser has an interesting post on the absence of explicit methods in an
Technology is commanding our attention in infinite, insurmountable loops. A country trip off-grid helped me escape. There are a thousand beautiful ways to start the day that don’t begin with looking a
(Image: Cornerstone Church of Orangeburg, South Carolina’s “Biblical Masculinity Week,” May 12, 2019.) “Isn’t this a blessed day?” Bill asked. Eight of us were on a boat in the middle of Lake Mohave,
Set theory is widely regarded as the foundation for (nearly) all of mathematics. This raises the question of what a set is and what sets there are. According to the famous iterative conception , sets
I have come here today first to bring you love. I have come here to express my deep gratitude to you for your love of music and of each other. And, I have come here to talk about the value of the arti
What would a socialist economy look like? The answers to this question vary, but most of them involve planning. A capitalist economy is organized through the interaction of prices and markets. A socia
Alexander Douglas Jan 12 · 9 min read Justin Smith wrote a fairly critical blog post on René Girard to which I feel moved to reply. A lot of it attacks Girard’s appeal in Silicon Valley, which I don’t
“I WON THE ELECTION!” Donald Trump tweeted in the early hours of 16 November 2020, 10 days after he lost the election. At the same time, Atlantic magazine announced an interview with Barack Obama , in
October 29, 2020 Most longtime Discord users have a similar origin story. They liked playing video games, and liked playing with their friends, so they used TeamSpeak or Skype to talk to their friends
French existentialist philosopher wrote nativity play while a prisoner of war Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 06:00 Jean-Paul Sartre in Paris in 1966. Photograph: Dominique Berretty/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Th
Wade Davis holds the Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. His award-winning books include “Into the Silence” and “The Wayfinders.” His new book, “
(Let Us Out of This Clause) At last, I had seen the true absurd hopelessness of things, laid out in flawless prose. July 6, 2020 Credit... Lucy Jones By Mr. Dolnick is a novelist. A few years ago I go
Christoph Schuringa Jun 10, 2020 · 12 min read ‘Western’ philosophy is widely taught in universities throughout the world today. Its dominance is such that it is generally referred to simply as ‘philo
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Photos Getty In the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, a newly formed group called the Black Psychiatrists of America began to
Christoph Schuringa May 28, 2020 · 12 min read The death of analytic philosophy has been announced many times. Talk of ‘postanalytic philosophy’ has started up, then fizzled out again, repeatedly for
Medieval monks had a terrible time concentrating. And concentration was their lifelong work! Their tech was obviously different from ours. But their anxiety about distraction was not. They complained
IF THE MODERN WORLD belongs to Dante and Shakespeare, as T. S. Eliot once suggested, the ancient world belongs not to two poets but to two saints: Paul and Augustine. The world they created — the worl
Two giants of revolutionary thought passed from this world in 2018. Through them, we can glimpse the distant shores of a classless society. They appeared first in Italy, then the UK, then the US – mas
MY FRIENDS TAKE a breath, lean across the table and assume the tone of Richard Dawkins explaining dinosaurs to intelligently designed Christians. They believe that in my promotion of Aboriginal achiev
When a notable philosopher, having established a reputation for rigorous argumentation and scholarship, directs a major new book toward a popular audience, a certain skepticism may be forgiven among t
Wednesday 23 August 2017 4:38pm Share Amy-Jill Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, and Professor of
Capitalism can’t be reconciled with the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth – or so claims the New Testament translator David Bentley Hart. Christ condemned not just greed for riches, but their very posses
Bequest of Laura L. Barnes / Bridgeman Images Samuel Colman: The Edge of Doom , 1836–1838 Politics, in wealthy countries, is increasingly becoming a war between the generations. While the support for
Her mother gave her a new phone, to console her. Rue couldn’t take big furniture, but she could have her first phone. That, at least, was portable. On the drive south, Rue called her grandmother. “Oh,
First NASA launched a few nanosatellites as experiments. Then a private space company sent up 300. Soon every government and major corporation had its own satellite network, and nearly a million nanos
Posted Mon 2 Dec 2019, 11:27am Updated Wed 3 Jun 2020, 8:12am Reclaiming pleasure and joy in teaching offers ways of resisting the resentment and isolation that characterises the corporate and increas
Photo by Steven HWG/Unsplash Many people see memory as providing the foundation upon which a stable sense of self is constructed. Our autobiographical memory, in particular, seems crucial to weaving a
While protest reverberates on the streets of Chile, Catalonia, Bolivia, Britain, France, Iraq, Lebanon, and Hong Kong, and a new generation rages against what has been done to their planet, I hope you
P OSSIBLY THE EARLIEST visual representation of Jesus of Nazareth is a crude drawing scratched on the wall of a Roman house, dubbed by scholars the “Alexamenos graffito.” It shows a man in profile ges
Chris Green Jul 29 · 6 min read 1. Not long after the infamous “witch” trials in Salem, a group of slaves in Boston founded a Religious Society of Negroes. Cotton Mather, the famous Puritan, a fierce defender of slavery, wrote the society’s standards, including its covenant: “Wee, the miserable…
“The big thing that we know from John Stuart Mill is that democracy is government by discussion, and, if you make discussion fearful, you are not going to get a democracy, no matter how you count the votes,” Amartya Sen says. Photographs by Tony Luong for The New Yorker Amartya Sen, the Indian…
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