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In Praise of Translation
The circumstances of my life have been such that I have moved, since adolescence, in a borderland between languages. Borderlands tend to be rugged, at least if...
Above the Thunderstorm
A Philosopher Looks at the Religious Life by zena hitz cambridge university, 150 pages, $12.99 At first glance, it seems odd that a major academic publisher should commission a volume...
Catastrophes in Ukraine
In the calm of the night train chugging from Przemyśl to Kyiv before dawn on May 9, while missiles rained down over my destination, I read Simone Weil’s 1940...
