‘What are we doing here?’ The polymaths who searched for the meaning of life

How Not to Waste Your Life

AI Part 1: What the Story-Writing Machines Are Doing to Us

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

As a Former Cop, I Have to Ask: What the Hell Is ICE Doing?

AI and the Global South’s Next Leap Forward

Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower: Rilke’s Timeless Spell for Living Through Difficult Times

Against Success

“Most people who subscribe to scientific materialism take it to be so obviously correct that it could not be denied by any rational person who truly understood it”

The Founders Would Have Opposed ‘Nationalizing’ Elections

"I find myself being more and more difficult," Toni Morrison once said. "It's something I really relish." The difficulty was the point

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Sleep and the Meaning of Life: Fernando Pessoa on the Existential Dimension of the Horizontal Hours

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

Oliver Sacks on Despair and the Meaning of Life

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

Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life

The war between writers and editors can be long, brutish, and nasty. "Every semicolon was a matter of life or death”

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

The Leaf that Wouldn’t Fall: A Tender Illustrated Parable about the Measure and Meaning of Love

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 

Some early life forms may have breathed oxygen well before it filled the atmosphere