Counsel at Crossroads: Job and Arjuna
December 14, 2025The Book of Job and a central section of the Indian epic Mahabharata present interesting perspectives...
Book Review: Myths from Mesopotamia by Stephanie Dalley
December 12, 2025I asked them why they, unannounced, wished to meet with the director and they told me...
Democracy and Populism : Fear and Hatred by John Lukacs
December 10, 2025You may not like what he says, you may not agree with his conclusions, but his...
An Interview With Biographer Ann Seaman
December 4, 2025"The three were kidnapped at gunpoint at the American Atheist headquarters in Austin, Texas on a...
An Interview With Author Mary Roach
December 3, 2025"Helen Duncan is my favorite. Huge, chain-smoking woman who used to swoon and occasionally pee herself...
An Interview with Michael Ruse
December 2, 2025"I do not think it appropriate to teach non-science in a biology class – especially non-science...
An Interview with Rebecca Goldstein, author of “Betraying Spinoza”
November 28, 2025"The issue that animated his life and his thought was that of religious intolerance. The Jews...
An Interview With Biographer James Connor
November 27, 2025"This means that we are a people who now live in that shadow world of quasi-existence....

Blu-Ray/DVD Review: The Wicker Tree
November 22, 2025The rites themselves have changed in practice if not in spirit, and the movie rekindles enough...

Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
November 19, 2025The Metropolitan Museum exhibition charts the fascinating, if complex, process of cultural transformation that took place...






