Perceptions

What a Canada–Europe Alliance Needs

All-around junior male

Astronomers catch a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf, 300 light years away

Iran’s Moment of Opportunity

Fat Cells May Retain a Memory of Obesity

Nietzsche on Walking and Creativity

Loneliness, Resilience, and the Right Choice: Poet Diane Ackerman on What She Learned While Working at a Suicide Prevention Hotline

Are single-mindedness and arrogance what’s required to write great fiction? Consider the case of Cormac McCarthy

“The real secret to beating envy is to realize that envy, in addition to being a great vice and an internal poison, is a drag”

‘China Shock’—or Minor Perturbation?

Perceptions

Federal Judge Halts Minnesota's Prediction Market Ban, Signaling Other States' Efforts Might Be Illegal Too

Extreme Heat Comes for the Red Chile Capital of Pakistan

Before puritanism and personality cults made it boring, affect theory brimmed with real intellectual potential. Laura Kipnis explains

The End of Oak Street Is a Nasty, Effective Exercise in Dino Terror

The ominous ‘fire clouds’ or ‘pyrocumulonimbus’ seen in France for the first time

How Art Invented Humanity

Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought conditions

Habermas believed the gap between expert and layperson could always, in principle, be closed by the right chain of translation

From the perspective of a career academic, the discourse in large parts of literary Substack appears worryingly thin and poorly informed