Saving Memphis

“I’m not a provocateur,” insists Alex Byrne, the MIT philosopher who helped author a report for the Trump administration on youth gender medicine

Trenchant but sententious, John Berger could sound like Platonov one moment, the next like Alain de Botton

Durkheim called it "collective effervescence." The rest of us call it getting gussied up to drink, dance, and have fun

Nose hairs tweezed just so, and set with Krazy Glue. Gently dappled liver spots. Their art is increasingly rare, but a few morticians are hanging on

How Trump's Tariffs Undermine US Trustworthiness and Credibility—and What Can Be Done to Stop it

Public Health Needs MAHA

Does This Photo from the Curiosity Rover Prove an Intense Sandstorm on Mars?

Open Thread

Large Libel Models Decision in China

How to Live a Miraculous Life

The heart has a ‘little brain’ — and it protects against stress

Beyond Greece and Rome

We've Been Wrong About Nuclear Power

In 1994, Stanley Fish described deconstruction as dead in the same way that Freudianism is dead. "It is everywhere.” He had a point

For some conservatives, the Great Books are simply an anti-woke bulwark. But the case for them is much grander and more provocative 

Open Thread

On the Work of Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska

Trump's Threats To Yank Broadcast Licenses Are Part of a Speech-Chilling Intimidation Campaign

Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Existential Tremors