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Listen, dear reader, to Jonathan GPT Swift on satire, economics, religion, and his fascination with scatalogical themes.

Mar 31

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Humans love challenges and competition, and that holds when we pick up books.

Mar 30

Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl, now Agatha Christie: "Sensitivity readers" have excised potentially offensive references in the Poirot and Miss Marple…

Mar 29

Like other provincial jesters, Slavoj Zizek expresses a studied naïveté toward culture and society.

Mar 28

Does placing human concerns at the center of society require displacing religious concerns?

Mar 27

Stanford’s Jo Boaler wants to revolutionize how math is taught.

Mar 24

Genealogies connect us with the past, but they are also contingent exercises in historical interpretation.

Mar 23

What does it take to get “roughed up” by Quakers? The relentless truth-telling and radical politics of Benjamin Lay were enough... more » “If the good…

Mar 22

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