Buddhism

Lost in Thought

By David Kortava,

The psychological risks of meditation

A Divine Pat

By John Cleese,

From Professor at Large, which was published last month by Cornell University Press. It must have seemed some kind of risk to request a sermon from a man once so…

Sara Jeannette Duncan’s “The Ordination of Asoka” (1903)

By Jeff Sharlet, on June 30, 2014

A story

A pilgrimage of sin

By Lawrence Osborne,

Booze, bombs, and hookers in Islamic Thailand

Applying for the lotus position

By Harper’s Staff,

Run Like Fire Once More

By Sam Shaw,

Chasing perfection at the world’s longest footrace

Weekly Review

By Paul Ford, on March 14, 2006

The U.S. State Department issued a report criticizing human rights abuses in China, North Korea, Iran, and Cuba. It also criticized the rights records of Jordan and Egypt, two countries…

Weekly Review

By Paul Ford, on June 7, 2005

President George W. Bush said that allegations made by Amnesty International, claiming that the prison at Guantánamo Bay is a “gulag,” were absurd. Bush accused Amnesty of listening to “people…

Weekly Review

By Roger D. Hodge, on October 26, 2004

Martin Luther controlled by the Devil, 1875. The interim Iraqi government officially notified the International Atomic Energy Agency that 380 tons of extremely powerful HMX and RDX explosives that American…

Weekly Review

By Roger D. Hodge, on December 23, 2003

A federal appeals court ordered President Bush to release Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen who was arrested last year in Chicago and has been held since then as an enemy…

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Lost in Thought

A Divine Pat

Sara Jeannette Duncan’s “The Ordination of Asoka” (1903)

A pilgrimage of sin

Applying for the lotus position

Run Like Fire Once More

Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Choosers can be beggars

Weekly Review

Weekly Review