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Jay Tolson

Jay Tolson is the director of the Global News Network at the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors and a contributing editor to the Scholar.

Questions of Being

Questions of Being

What if our minds are the ultimate reality?

by Jay Tolson | Tuesday, September 04, 2012
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The Mind-Brain Problem

Psychologist Jerome Kagan has always known that biology is only a partial solution

by Jay Tolson | Thursday, June 01, 2006

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The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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