The Meaning of Maturity: Ursula K. Le Guin on What It Really Takes to Grow Up

The Unitary Executive Takes Over New Territory

What Is a Trillion, Really?

Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life

The Declaration of the Enslaved

Open Thread

Peace With Iran Is All About Lebanon Now

What is this rock?

My Descent Into Mah-Jongg

What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life

Is Europe Finally Taking Responsibility for Its Own Defense?

Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Anger, Forgiveness, and What Maturity Really Means

To study how chips really work, MIT researchers built their own operating system

Are we really in “the least innovative, least transformative, least pioneering century for culture since the invention of the printing press”?

When Duchamp took New York: Europe spurned him, so he decamped to America, where he was met with exaltation and outrage

“After all the testing and lotteries and nail-biting, this is it?” Even New York parents are growing tired of gifted and talented programs

Children’s literature used to get reviewed in serious outlets. That’s stopped — and has that turned the genre to “crud”?

Is a new academic report with a dry title a “diabolically evil” plot to undermine the humanities? Or will it save them?  

Generational Debts of Gratitude

Terrorists and Criminals Reportedly Got $37.5 Billion From COVID Relief and Other U.K. Aid Programs

274 Years Ago Today, Benjamin Franklin Flew a Kite