Readers of the Volokh Conspiracy will know Genesis 1-11: A New Old Translation for Readers, Scholars, and Translators (with John F. Hobbins) from an earlier series of posts. Several months ago I also ...

The origin of the world is laid out in the biblical Book of Genesis. And so it unfolds with the other Genesis — South Korea's upstart luxury brand. Genesis has its own book of Genesis — literally.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Marilynne Robinson is admired in Britain by those who appreciate her sparsely but beautifully written novels ...

There was a hymn we used to sing when I was a child, one of those lusty, murderous chants characteristic of the Anglican Church in its high-Victorian pomp. Written in 1894, it vibrates with imperial ...

Figures of speech are used in many kinds of texts, including legal texts. The late Justice Scalia saw "speech" and "press" in the First Amendment as "a sort of synecdoche" (p. 38 here). And several ...

We can humbly seek their wisdom without treating them as mascots for one position or another. Through that process, I became personally (and painfully) aware of how heated Genesis 1 controversies ...