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An Intellectual in Exile

John Fea   |  April 29, 2022

The second in a series of meditations on Ignazio Silone’s Bread and Wine

A Pro-Life Strategy for the Blue States

Daniel K. Williams   |  April 28, 2022

Regional divisions may require an approach that seeks common ground

LONG FORM: Frederick Douglass and the Challenge of Seeing Clearly

Jay Case   |  April 26, 2022

Great transformations of moral perception make debtors of us all—if we have eyes to see

From Grandpa Lenin with Love

Nadya Williams   |  April 25, 2022

A Soviet childhood leaves its traces on the heart—even as the mind wonders why

Facing Fears

M. Elizabeth Carter   |  April 22, 2022

Need to overcome some fear? Brain science and a sweet reward may just do the trick.

Man Cannot Spend All His Time in Taverns

John Fea   |  April 21, 2022

The first in a series of meditations on Ignazio Silone’s Bread and Wine

The Better Angels of Our Democracy

Adam Jortner   |  April 20, 2022

Putin has opened a window for restoring American politics

Blest Be the Tithe that Binds

Mark Schwehn   |  April 19, 2022

Practicing generosity—with creativity and good cheer

How Much Cake?

Agnes Howard   |  April 18, 2022

Christine Emba’s Rethinking Sex leaves little doubt: We need a corrective from outside ourselves

Standing in Solidarity

Shirley Mullen   |  April 14, 2022

The emerging geopolitical landscape demands an idealism grounded in humility

BOOK MARKS: Keeping the Place

Jon Boyd   |  April 13, 2022

“He best expressed his preference for his wild homestead by saying that his Bible seemed truer to him there.”

Puritan Passions

Timothy Larsen   |  April 12, 2022

350 years on, Anne Bradstreet’s poems still speak

Bricolage

Sarah Huffines   |  April 11, 2022

A life crafted from what’s on hand

“If the KKK opposes gay marriage, I would ride with them”

John Fea   |  April 8, 2022

The second of a two-part series on the Black church and gay marriage in 2004

Picking Up a Snake

Paul Luikart   |  April 7, 2022

Certitude and cynicism alike bow to wonder—at least every now and then

INTERVIEW: Antón Barba-Kay on the State of the American Center

Eric Miller   |  April 6, 2022

If politics abhors a void, what will fill the vacated space we once thought of as “the center”?

Can Writing (And Reading) Military History Be an Act of Compassion?

Nadya Williams   |  April 5, 2022

Aeschylus prompts us to consider other ways of seeing war—past and present

Look Not to the Dead and Dying

Robert Erle Barham   |  April 4, 2022

Independence has its place. Dependence has a bigger one. 

To the Tyrants

Frederic S. Durbin   |  April 1, 2022

A poem for the people of Ukraine

When Race and Gay Marriage Collided at the Jersey Shore

John Fea   |  March 31, 2022

In 2004, Asbury Park started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The Black community responded with a prayer vigil.

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