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Religion
An Indigenous Theory of Water: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Rivers as Teachers
The Author of "Theory of Water" Offers Some Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg Spirituality
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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
| May 8, 2025
An Immodest Proposal: How Britain’s Relentless Imperialism Created the Irish Potato Famine
Padraic X. Scanlan on Jonathan Swift, Colonization, and Dispossession
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Padraic X. Scanlan
| May 7, 2025
How Christian Missionaries Sought to Erase Native American Culture and Identity
Mary Annette Pember on the Church-State Collaboration That Led to Systematic Displacement Throughout the 19th Century
By
Mary Annette Pember
| April 23, 2025
What if the final meeting between V.P. Vance and Pope Francis took place in a Dan Brown novel?
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James Folta
| April 22, 2025
The Most Literary Pope:
Requiescat in Pace, Francis
“Literature engages our concrete existence, with its innate tensions, desires and meaningful experiences...”
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Nick Ripatrazone
| April 22, 2025
Words as Borders, Weapons, Traps: Sarah Aziza on Being a Palestinian Writer Today
The Author of “The Hollow Half” Explores Language, Silence, and Being
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Sarah Aziza
| April 22, 2025
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Religion Meets the Swinging Sixties: How Western Christianity Confronted a Decade of Change
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Diarmaid MacCulloch
| April 16, 2025
Leah Sottile on Amy Carlson, aka Mother God, and the Creation of a New Age Cult
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Leah Sottile
| March 26, 2025
The Former Head of Human Rights Watch on the Challenges of Reporting on the Abuses of Israel’s Government
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Kenneth Roth
| March 17, 2025
A Revolt Against Rationality: On the Utopian Dreams of Early 20th-Century Occultists
Raphael Cormack Explores the Emergence of a Spiritual Movement That Sought to Transform the Modern Age
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Raphael Cormack
| March 14, 2025
From Philly to Derry: On the Americans Who Armed the IRA During The Troubles
Ali Watkins on Vincent Conlon’s Secret Life in the United States as an Operative and Gun-Running Irish Rebel
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Ali Watkins
| March 11, 2025
Liverpool Never Forgets: On the Legacy of the Hillsborough Disaster
Oliver Smith Considers Soccer as Sport and Religion in the United Kingdom
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Oliver Smith
| March 10, 2025
Bare Before the Sublime:
A Short History of Nudity As Spiritual Practice
Philip Carr-Gomm Explores the Relationship Between the Naked Body and Unconventional Spirituality Throughout the Ages
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Philip Carr-Gomm
| March 4, 2025
From Bowie to Baseball to Bitcoin: Ten Nonfiction Books to Check Out in March
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| February 28, 2025
Cult of the Cowboy: Inside the Toxic Adoration of an All-American Obsession
Rachel Wagner on Video Games, Violence and the Enduring Allure of the Vigilante Hero
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Rachel Wagner
| February 26, 2025
Secrets of the Deep South: In Search of Hidden Family and Collective History in Georgia
David Levering Lewis on the Eternal Questions of Race and Power Surrounding the American National Narrative
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David Levering Lewis
| February 12, 2025
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Westminster Abbey's Roman sarcophagus mystery remains have been identified!
October 23, 2026
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Olivia Rutigliano
Riley Sager and Tom Ryan on coincidentally writing thrillers with the same premise
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Tom Ryan
Noah Segan discusses his new film, 'The Only Living Pickpocket in New York'
October 23, 2026
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Radha Vatsal
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"A vivid, sometimes grisly, sometimes enraging portrait of 19th-century British society ... Probing and excellent."