The New York Times columns selected for Think Again are engaging, provocative, maddening, humorous, and insightful.
religion
Book Review: Émile Zola’s “The Conquest of Plassans” — “Tartuffe” Gone Realpolitik
Entertaining yet incisive, The Conquest of Plassans remains a devastatingly acute reminder that religion and politics make surprisingly compatible bedfellows.
Film Interview: Helen Whitney — Film as Spiritual Autobiography
Award-winning filmmaker Helen Whitney: “My films form a kind of spiritual autobiography. I’m always searching for subjects that allow me to ask the big questions: Why are we here? Why must we die? Is this all there is?”