Articles in this Issue
Making It Up
Suppose a negative times a negative doesn’t equal a positive.
Three Prime Numbers Go into a Bar
The curious history of the Riemann Hypothesis.
Unintended Consequences
Swiss missionaries in southern Africa.
The Letter and the Spirit
An apostolic movement in Zimbabwe that rejects the Bible as a source of authority.
The Friend-Enemy Distinction
Carl Schmitt, anti-Semitism, and liberal democracy.
Calvinism and Liberty
Reformed influences on America’s founding principles.
God, Justice, and Love
The grounds for human flourishing.
Rest for the Weary
Eliot’s Four Quartets
The Poet’s Prose
Auden at midcentury.
Pretenders
Church and state in Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play.
The Shamus Was a Nun
Meet Dame Frevisse, a 15th-century sleuth.
From Moscow to Detroit
Two economies, two tales.
A Substitute Religion
The senior terrorist organization in the world.
Wondrous Love
The living tradition of Sacred Harp singing.
“Think with Me Today”
The seedbed of Martin Luther King Jr.’s, greatest speech.
Orwell the Essayist
A new selection in two volumes.
The Drowned and the Saved
Last year’s Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film is a study in gray.
Rehoboth
Righteous acts, filthy rags, and a mission cemetery.
A Collision of Lives
An atheist and a pastor square off—with surprising results.
No Longer at Ease Here
Nine stories of “evangelical disenchantment.”
A Shambling Magnificence
How the English language evolved.
Hazardous Material
The unmentionable world of human waste.