Stories By Michael
Religion
Hanna Rosin Discusses God’s Harvard
June 9, 2026"Tensions often arise between secular teachings and Biblical beliefs. Many students are reading, say Kant and...
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Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
June 7, 2026"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
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Alfred S. Posamentier on the Fibonacci Numbers
June 5, 2026"The golden ratio is also quite ubiquitous in art and in architecture. We find it by...
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Jeffrey J. Kripal, Author of Esalen
June 4, 2026"By human potentialities, Huxley and Esalen meant to refer to all those aspects of the human...
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A Talk With Cullen Murphy, Author of Are We Rome?
May 31, 2026"That said, the thinking that lay behind the invasion of Iraq—the notion that we could transform...
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Sophie Osborn on Saving the California Condor
May 29, 2026"I think hunters need to start demanding more research into the human health impacts of hunting...
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T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Discusses Hip Hop’s Attitude Toward Women
May 29, 2026"The title was inspired by Snoop Dogg. It captures the ethos of the new gender politics...
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An Interview With “Pistol Pete” Maravich Biographer Mark Kriegel
May 29, 2026"One of the components of genius, I would argue, is an unnaturally high tolerance for practice....
Architecture
An Interview With Louis Kahn Biographer Carter Wiseman
May 28, 2026"I think the most powerful common thread running through Kahn’s work was his humanity. He seems...
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Allen Shawn Discusses Phobias
May 28, 2026"When I finally encountered the concept of ‘agoraphobia’, I recognized myself. I have an intense fear...




