What is Your Part? Reflections on “Action” in a Time of Crisis By Susannah Crockford As part of my research on climate change, I recently interviewed a retired civil engineer who worked for decades in Read more…
Proud to be Bird-Brained By Jay Johnston I sat awkwardly aware of the tears coalescing and starting to slide down my cheeks. There I was, in the audience at a small community hall on a Read more…
Art Meets Astrology: Towards a Broader Understanding of Art History By Klemens Ludwig Traditional art historians and scholars ignore or even deny the importance of astrology in art. This limited view had led to some Read more…
Preserving Religious Freedom When (Some) Churches Abuse their Members? By Dion Forster Religion plays a significant role in the lives of most South Africans. In the last census (2011), just over 84 percent of citizens Read more…
The “Worthy Opposition”: Learning to Learn By Marcia Pally We are going deaf. We worry about political polarization, the rise of the radical right and so on, but there’s a deafness afoot that is pre-political Read more…
A Good Death By Whitney A. Bauman Many of us in “western” cultures are steeped in ethical and aesthetic questions about “the good life.” What is it and who has access to Read more…
Why Physics Needs Poetry By Alissa Jones Nelson “Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe. We need the languages of both science and poetry to save us from merely Read more…
Why Be Virtuous? By F. Samuel Brainard In the final days of October, more than a dozen pipe bombs were sent by a political fanatic to members of the opposing political party in the U.S.; Read more…
Accountability or Objectivity? By Kocku von Stuckrad Are scholars the guardians of the Grail of Truth? Is there a truth that scholars have to insist on over against the “invention of Read more…
Art-Work in the Age of Trump By Rachel Alliston Last August, at a Counterpoint conference in Berlin, Anthea Butler gave a keynote speech on the intersection of religious practice, religious freedom, and the secular state. Read more…
