The Man for Whom Everything Was a Game
John von Neumann’s life ended the way many of those of his intellectual caliber end: in madness.
Living in a WEIRDER World
by
Brad East
Posted on October 12, 2023
Image: William Blake’s illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy reflected the artist’s critical views of the Industrial Revolution. Minos, c.1824–27, by William Blake (1757–1827), for Dante’s Inferno; Wikimedia Commons, public domain, {{PD-US-expired}}.
Protestant pagans are everywhere in the post-Christian West.
The Tiny, Grammar-Bound Island
by
Sue Curry Jansen
and
Jeff Pooley
Posted on October 10, 2023
Image: Susanne K. Langer in 1945 and various editions of her books; THR illustration.
Much of what we know is unspeakable, and language is but one expressive medium.
Unbiblical Scholarship
Every graduate student in the humanities should be required to take a course in the English Bible.
Why Characters Write
Consider another problem of motivation in the house of fiction: why characters write.
Kundera and the Question of Jewish-Israeli Identity
by
Yiftach Ofek
Posted on September 28, 2023
Image: Bougainvillea in Jerusalem by Mathilde Pée/Unsplash.
Kundera chose to take the long view, reflecting on the relationship between the Jews and Europe, and, more broadly, on the Jews and that European, literary spirit to which he saw himself heir.