Home / Jedi Jedi Featured Essays Star Trek Jedi Knights and Vulcans Both Suck Now — What Happened? By Charlie Jane Anders October 17, 2023 Comment number: 0 Column Star Wars Thought Exercise: Do Jedi Sleep Naked? By Emmet Asher-Perrin May 11, 2020 Comment number: 29 Movies & TV Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker What’s the Deal With Rey’s Lightsaber? By Emmet Asher-Perrin December 22, 2019 Comment number: 22 Books Science Fiction From the Jedi Order to the Torturers’ Guild: Science Fiction’s Preoccupation with Monks in Space By Max Gladstone June 17, 2019 Comment number: 31 Column Star Wars The “True Nature of the Force” is More Complicated Than You Think By Emmet Asher-Perrin December 7, 2017 Comment number: 34 Books history Ancient Philosophy in a Galaxy Far, Far Away By Max Gladstone August 25, 2017 Comment number: 10 Column Star Wars The “True Nature of the Force” is Way More Complicated Than You Think By Emmet Asher-Perrin April 19, 2017 Comment number: 52 Column Star Wars This is Why Obi-Wan Lied to Luke Skywalker About His Father By Emmet Asher-Perrin May 4, 2015 Comment number: 55 Column Star Wars Is the Force A Religion? By Emmet Asher-Perrin May 4, 2015 Comment number: 7 Books philosophy Let Me Tell Y’all A Little Bit About the Mohists… By Max Gladstone February 9, 2015 Comment number: 17 Column Star Wars This is Why Obi-Wan Lied to Luke Skywalker About His Father By Emmet Asher-Perrin January 26, 2015 Comment number: 70 News On Our Radar When Jedi Kittens Fight, Everyone Wins By Stubby the Rocket October 10, 2013 Comment number: 3 1 2