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The wisdom of Earthseed
In the Parable novels, Octavia Butler imagines not just a dystopian future but also a way to survive it.
True crime at the div school
In 1991, religion scholar Ioan Petru Culianu was murdered at the University of Chicago. Was this killing related to his controversial mentor, Mircea Eliade?
Joseph de Maistre’s magnum opus is still perplexing after 200 years
Les soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg has often been dismissed as propaganda. It isn’t.
It’s 1933, and Franklin Graham is German theologian Paul Althaus
A limited but troubling historical analogy
Trump is a threat to democracy. How can we defend it?
The authoritarian nationalism of the 20th century never quite died. And Americans now aren't wiser than Europeans then.
The martyrs of Debre Libanos
Under Mussolini, Christian soldiers obeyed orders to target the Ethiopian church.