John Fetterman Says He's 'Very Libertarian in a Lot of Ways'

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The French surrealists, stricken by serving in World War I, adopted a new philosophical approach: “vibrant pessimism”

How Social Media Became Antisocial

Spain's largest research organization confronts its dark past

Rage of the Falling Elite

A Closer Look: Drawings from Venice and Veneto

The rise of computer chips — and the race to control them

Early Americans Pioneered the Keto Diet

Friday Poem

Young John Berryman revered the elder generation of poets. By 1947, though, he diagnosed “a deadly and vacant period” in American poetry

No, Seriously, Decriminalizing Drugs Kills People

We are entering a world of extreme cognitive polarization. Some people will use AI to think more. Others will use AI to think less 

Norbert Wiener warned in 1960 that machines and humans are foreign to each other. We still are

Bolaño envy. Is Latin American literature, in its totality, more important than literature produced in the United States?

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The DOJ Challenges Virginia's 'Assault Firearm' Law and California's Glock Ban

Today in Supreme Court History: July 6, 1835

Discovery helps explain why solid-state batteries often fail

Colorectal Cancer and Childhood Exposure to a Common Gut Bacteria