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Susan Jacoby

Susan Jacoby is the author of the forthcoming book Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion, from which this essay is adapted. She is the author of 11 other books.

Awakenings

Awakenings

The advent of new religions in the 1800s led to fierce debates that persist today

by Susan Jacoby | Monday, December 07, 2015
A New Birth of Reason

A New Birth of Reason

Robert Ingersoll, the Great Agnostic, inspired late-19th-century Americans to uphold the founders’ belief in separation of church and state

by Susan Jacoby | Friday, December 07, 2012

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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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