C’mon, Professors, Assign the Hard Reading

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No Retroactive Pseudonymization in Federal Court Under California "Safe at Home" Program

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

For Warmth: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Poetic Antidote to Anger

New AI model could cut the costs of developing protein drugs

This Forest Rodent Serves as a Reservoir for the Deadly Mpox Virus

Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death

Today in Supreme Court History: February 15, 1790

How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love

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Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Our Holiday Reading List

Daily briefing: The neural circuit that can make it hard to start a difficult task

“Telling someone to love literature because reading is good for society is like telling someone to believe in God because religion is good for society”

Reading Infinite Jest Now

Anaïs Nin on How Reading Awakens Us from the Slumber of Almost-Living

Tolkien’s reading of Beowulf, and his ability to blend the epic with the novel, fiction and scholarship, shaped his sense of story 

The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece

The “Hard Problem Of Consciousness” Is Actually Easy

The Education of Kevin McCallister

Review: A Novel About Masculinity and Weightlifting