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Two special sections of "Gastronomica" place the spotlight on microbes to explicitly draw our attention to this invisible layer of life in foods and food systems.

It has been surprisingly easy for Victorian scholars to overlook Thomas Carlyle in recent years as an unfashionable “Victorian sage.”  But in his time, in George Eliot’s description, Carlyle was like an oak leaving fertile acorns of ideas that would grow and spread with good influence.

Maurizio Bettini's In Praise of Polytheism is a thought-provoking new book on what ancient polytheistic religions can teach us about building inclusive and equitable futures.At the heart of this book is a simple comparison: monotheistic religions are exclusive, whereas ancient polytheistic r

By Armond R. Towns, author of On Black Media PhilosophyIn 1955, the British colonial psychiatrist J.C. Carothers published The Psychology of Mau Mau. The report was directed to the Protectorate of Kenya and spoke to the revolutionary push by the Kenyan people against British colonial rule. Carot

By Lawrence Kramer, author of The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of ListeningWhen a person speaks the truth, more is demanded than that the spoken words be true. They must also carry the ring of truth. Sometimes the truth only feels true when we can hear the sound of it. Merely knowing it i