How to measure a good life – tips for moving beyond GDP

Rodrigo Duterte's 'Death Squads' Fought in the Philippines' War on Drugs. Now He Might Get Life in Prison.

Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers

The Lecture I Couldn’t Give

Today in Supreme Court History: March 21, 1989

The Death of Millennial Feminism

The Gulf Is Becoming Uninsurable

New York Gov. Hochul Begs 'High-Net-Worth' Refugees To Return and Be Taxed

Pinto’s Lesson

Open Thread

How Trump Killed Conservatism

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning

The Three Elements of the Good Life

The Blessing of Burnout: Samin Nosrat on the Faustian Bargain of Achievement and the Simple Substance of the Good Life

The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on How to Grow Old and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart

“Telling someone to love literature because reading is good for society is like telling someone to believe in God because religion is good for society”

“Good politics, like good art, does not lecture or declaim. It strains; it argues; it is an unending negotiation with the difficult and intransigent adventure of humanity”

Are we on the verge of creating synthetic life?

James Baldwin on How to Live Through Your Darkest Hour and Life as a Moral Obligation to the Universe

What makes a good proton conductor?

Darwin’s Greatest Regret and His Deathbed Reflection on What Makes Life Worth Living