The humanities spent decades decentering the human. Now Big Tech is doing it better

Kathryn Paige Harden on How Genetics Shapes Human Behavior

The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses

‘Debate me!’ doesn’t work. Here are better ways to disagree – and maybe change minds

Radical proposal would block solar storms with orbital ‘airbag’

Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain

Sunday Poem

Open Thread

Motherland on High

Spiraling Out of Control

The Trump Administration Wants to Frighten Would-Be Whistleblowers

"The age when you can run a literary magazine on trust is over. You can either decide AI submissions are fine, or you can filter for them"

Watch Immune System Cells Gobble Up Cancer Cells

Flickering Enlightenment

Alasdair MacIntyre believed that Western morality, having lost its rationale, was replaced by something thinner: mere moral passion  

William Kennedy’s Hard Luck and High Style

The Left’s Institutional Capture

Open Thread

Harold Bloom read everything, praised lavishly, and struggled mightily with self-doubt 

Today in Supreme Court History: May 30, 1865

Can Utah Save the Great Salt Lake?