Of Stars, Seagulls, and Love: Loren Eiseley on the First and Final Truth of Life

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Is This Blue: Chilean Philosophers Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela on Love and How We Know the World

How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other

Trump’s Dark Night on Truth Social

Is the War in Iran Totally Pointless?

The Centuries-Old History of the Super El Niño

“The American novel offers the dream of escape: away from civilization and into the forest, away from marriage and onto the sea, away from history and back to boyhood”

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Report: Federal Regulatory Compliance Costs $2 Trillion Annually

How to Tax Billionaires

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

The Eternal Lyric of Love and Loss: “Goodnight Moon” Author Margaret Wise Brown’s Little-Known Poems for the Tragic Love of Her Life

Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife

The Monarchs, Music, and the Meaning of Life: The Most Touching Deathbed Love Letter Ever Written

How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust

How to Live a Miraculous Life: Brian Doyle on Love, Humility, and the Quiet Grace of the Possible

How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love

Keith Haring on Creativity, Self-Doubt, and the Love of Life in the Face of Death

How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust

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

‘Stay Alive,’ about daily life in Nazi Berlin, shows how easy it is to just go along