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Frank O'Hara packed 100 references into 500 lines. Even his most devoted readers miss most of them

Muscle Isn’t Vanity. Gabrielle Lyon Says It’s Preventive Medicine

Triage – how should we respond to the world’s atrocities?

When The AI Says To Kill

After Jason Arday’s Death, a New Push Against Free Expression in the U.K.

California’s Billion-Dollar Union Machine

"That Fire Burns Is an Inference Nearly as Old as Human History"

No Pseudonymity in Lawsuit Against Apple for Allegedly Enabling Stalking Via AirTags—Other Courts Had Allowed Pseudonymity

Florence Knoll: The Designer Who Shaped the Modern Office

Before puritanism and personality cults made it boring, affect theory brimmed with real intellectual potential. Laura Kipnis explains

Frank Beard (1949 – 2026) ZZ Top Drummer

Trump Administration Plans New Facility To House 3,000 Migrant Kids. Many of Them Lack Legal Representation.

In 1939, a 3,000-year-old trumpet blared across BBC airwaves, briefly bridging Tutankhamun's tomb to 150 million living rooms

Los Angeles Darkening

Ileana Cotrubas (1939 – 2026) Opera Soprano

Trump Plans to Impose New Illegal Tariffs on Canada

Why the World Still Needs Wall Street

The Ceuta Crisis Is About More Than Migration

Trump Once Promised International Students Green Cards. Now The Government Might Charge Them $100,000 To Work.

Trump Media Is Selling Early Access to the President's Truth Social Posts for $100,000 a Month