“Ancient Splendor” brings Trajan’s artifacts to the US for the first time
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Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott reviews the new exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum, “Ancient Splendor: Roman Art in the Time of Trajan.”
Hestia in Kansas
“I have never kidded myself about Kansas,” writes Luke Babb. “There are parts of it I love, sure, in the way any kid loves the home where they grew up. But I was not yet out of high school before I knew that I was never going to come back.”
Review: The Torah in the Tarot
Manny Moreno reviews Stav Appel’s boxed set from Ayin Press, which includes the Jean Noblet Tarot de Marseille alongside a startling argument that the Marseille Tarot tradition reflects Jewish symbolism transmitted during a time of antisemitic persecution.
USCIRF Warns Religious Freedom Violations Signal Atrocity Risk, Again Omitting Pagans and Polytheists
A new USCIRF report links religious freedom violations to the risk of mass atrocities worldwide. Yet Pagans, polytheists, and other minority faith traditions remain largely absent from its analysis.