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03.11.10
The World Feels More Spacious
"Janna Levin is an atheist, if we care to categorize her. And while that simple fact informs our conversation along with her exquisite intelligence and her mathematical training, we cover territory that can't be bounded by such definitions."
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03.04.10
A Darwinian Approach to Faith and Reason
"And yet his conclusions — to the surprise of reviewers both secular and sacred and even, one senses, to Robert Wright himself — contain a profound seriousness about the human religious enterprise and its potential for good in the world."
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02.25.10
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02.18.10
Drawing Out Real Human Stories and Voices
"This is democracy below the radar screen — Israelis and Palestinians who've suffered the worst of the conflict between their peoples and are taking matters into their own hands towards a different future. And they are surely onto something."
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02.11.10
"The Color of Ideas"
"His own heritage is West Indian, and the term African American in fact obscures the far-flung immigrant story inside the story of race in the U.S. alone. But in using the word 'blackness' — which culturally might seem a reversal — E. Ethelbert Miller is talking about much more than the color of one's skin. He is talking about 'the color of ideas.'"
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