What Prediction Feels Like: From Thermodynamics to Mind

Be Like Water: The Philosophy and Origin of Bruce Lee’s Famous Metaphor for Resilience

Kafka’s Approach to Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gifts

<em>The Clash of Civilizations</em> Was an Inside Job

"The Quality of Counsel's Filings Further Deteriorated"

Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss

Poem by Jim Culleny

The Disappointment of Young Trump Voters

Wayne Thiebaud’s Sweet Take on American Art

Words Without Consequence

Love Anyway

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

The novelist George Sand dressed like a man, took a male name and went through lovers like a rake. The life and the work cannot be disentangled 

We may finally know what a healthy gut microbiome looks like

Jellyfish and Sea Anemones Sleep Just Like Us

The Postliberal Mind Virus

In publications like the New Masses and The Anvil, the proletarian literary movement had a message for Ezra Pound: “See you in hell”

Brickbat: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, but You Can Never Leave

The Super Bowl of Prediction Markets

What explains the success of Colson Whitehead, Jennifer Egan, and Kazuo Ishiguro? Publishers want literary fiction that looks like genre fiction

Don Lemon's Arrest Looks Like an Assault on Freedom of the Press

Saying Co-Worker "Looked Like a Homeless Prostitute" Is Opinion, Can't Be Defamation