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In his August cover story for Harper’s Magazine, Jason Blakely argues that an overreliance on scientific authority, or “scientism,” only furthered the

Complete detachment or complete engagement - as Billy Joel observed, it all depends upon your appetite.... I am still making my way, rather too leisurely probably, through Walker Percy's marvelous novel The Last Gentleman (about which I will have much to say, since I corresponded with Mr. Percy while completing my first book, a novel, The…

Thinkers including Hal Foster, Anthony Grafton, Martha Jones, and Anahid Nersessian pick their favorites.

As spirituality has faded, the language of politics has been pared to the technocratic. But politics needs to accommodate feeling.

As spirituality has faded, the language of politics has been pared to the technocratic. But politics needs to accommodate feeling.

As spirituality has faded, the language of politics has been pared to the technocratic. But politics needs to accommodate feeling.

MIT Professor Thomas W. Eagar has died at age 72. A welding expert and former head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, he is remembered for his personal teaching style and commitment to students.

Two people died in only four days while recreating on Clear Creek in Jefferson County. Both of the deaths happened in the same general area of Clear Creek.

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s newest release, In the Land of the Cyclops , is a collection of essays and reviews translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken and published in the United States by Archipelago Books. The title essay, first published in a Swedish newspaper in 2015, is an enraged response to a critic who asserted that Knausgaard’s depiction of a relationship between a teacher and a student in his first novel was pedophiliac. Knausgaard argues forcefully that explorations of all human...