User-Friendly Self-Deception: Philosopher Amélie Rorty on the Value of Our Delusions and the Antidote to the Self-Defeating Ones

How to Feel Whole in a Broken World: An Astronaut’s Antidote to Despair

At 50, Orwell said, “everyone has the face he deserves.” Can the same be said about our hands?

Open Thread

How to Electrify the Global South

He Was Arrested Over a Bogus Drug Tests. Now He's Suing.

On The Liberal Imagination

How the brain handles the “cocktail party problem”

The Big Picture

Purpose.exe

Scientists Grow Chickpeas in Lunar Soil

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

“Authenticity is the supreme literary value, when in fact it is not an aesthetic value at all. Can there be a prescription more discouraging to the imagination?"

Delusions Are Often Not-So-Delusional After All

Margaret Atwood on Margaret Atwood. "This is a very long book that is very ample on seemingly insignificant matters and oddly reticent on a few big ones"

An Love, Reason, and the Antidote to the Melancholy of the Chance Not Taken

A Life of One’s Own: A Penetrating Century-Old Field Guide to Self-Possession, Mindful Perception, and the Art of Knowing What You Really Want

Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance

Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value

The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy

Often invoked, rarely read, the work of the philosopher Alexandre Kojève is finally landing in the spotlight

"One Would Expect … Attorneys Believe They Bring Some Level of Value to Their Clients Beyond That of a Machine"