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CongressJanuary 12, 2018
This Cruel Parody of Representation
Under Donald Trump, the Republican Party has acted decisively on urgent problems by not acting at all.
Marilynne Robinson
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Executive BranchDecember 5, 2016
A Proof, a Test, an Instruction
Obama is ours, in the deep sense that Lincoln is ours.
Marilynne Robinson
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PhilosophyOctober 22, 2015
Humanism, Science, and the Radical Expansion of the Possible
Why we shouldn’t let neuroscience banish mystery from human life.
Marilynne Robinson
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CultureNovember 9, 2011
Night Thoughts of a Baffled Humanist
Punitive yet salvific, austerity is the ideology of a country that has turned against its own culture.
Marilynne Robinson
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BiographyNovember 23, 2010
Risk the Game: On William James
For William James, all our certitudes depend on the pretense that there are no radical mysteries underlying them.
Marilynne Robinson