Reducing Science and Religion

The world remains infinitely more complex than contemporary attempts to account for it

Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self By Marilynne Robinson

Earth Time

Maker of Magazines

Henry Luce had a restless mind and a preternatural feel for the national pulse

The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century By Alan Brinkley

Growing Up in a Troubled Neighborhood

Kai Bird’s Middle East Memories and Meditations

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis By Kai Bird

Afghanistan: ‘So This Is Paktya’

How ready are our allies to secure their own country?

An Assassin’s Tale

In the footsteps of the murderer of Martin Luther King Jr.

Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin By Hampton Sides

Do Head Meds Make Us Sicker?

The argument that says they do has problems of its own

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America By Robert Whitaker

Spaced Out in the City

Profit

Mayhem Across the Border

A Mexican city where homicide is the new normal

Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields By Charles Bowden

Luis Alvaro Sahagún Nuño

Ancestral healing

Asteroid Hunters

The scientists and engineers who defend our planet day and night from potentially hazardous space rocks

Who Would I Be Off My Meds

Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistanceby Laura Delano

Brown Wasps

“Writing in the Dark” by Denise Levertov

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

A Midsummer Night’s Stream
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A Midsummer Night’s Stream

American Carthage
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Echoes from the ancient conflicts between Hannibal’s city and Rome continue to reverberate well into the present

Who’s to Say?
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A bewildering take from a noted scholar of Christianity

Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesusby Elaine Pagels

Learning to Be Social
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What might Rousseau teach us about how to live with others?

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