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Understanding the Impossible

Understanding the Impossible

Carlos Eire — Levitating saints raise questions that no historian should avoid. Never mind the metaphysical questions, that floating ten-ton anvil that historians dare not touch, much less acknowledge. Aside… READ MORE

A Resistant Model of Peoplehood

A Resistant Model of Peoplehood

Tamara Cohn Eskenazi— A Brief Overview of Ezra-Nehemiah My fascination with Ezra-Nehemiah was initially sparked by my teacher, mentor, and friend Kent H. Richards, whose seminar on the subject I… READ MORE

God in the Closet

God in the Closet

Anthony T. Kronman— My parents were intelligent atheists. They had a battery of reasons for their disbelief. But as I eventually discovered, their disdain for religion was not the product… READ MORE

Our Spectres Round Us Night and Day

Our Spectres Round Us Night and Day

Mark Edmundson— Is it possible for entire societies to grow ill? Can a large population become mentally unstable? William Blake thought so.  Blake, the first major English Romantic poet, diagnosed… READ MORE

Poetry Month 2023: Mass for Shut-Ins

Poetry Month 2023: Mass for Shut-Ins

Mass for Shut-Ins is the 117th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, in which Mary-Alice Daniel confronts tricontinental culture shock and her curious placement within many worlds. During… READ MORE

Forgiveness: An Alternative Account

Forgiveness: An Alternative Account

Matthew Ichihashi Potts— In the weeks after George Floyd was murdered, when people were marching and protesting in cities across the United States, a video of author and activist Kimberly Jones went… READ MORE

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