Scott Aaronson reviews the movie “The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist”

In Praise of “Inferior”

What Exactly Is a Groyper?

How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust

Remaking Europe’s Energy System for the Age of AI

Maryland Lawyer/Ex-Legislator Again Rebuffed in Attempt to Seal Alleged Libel

Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed

Ursula K. Le Guin on Suffering and Getting to the Other Side of Pain

Poem by Jim Culleny

The Productivity Panic of 2026

Kant and Individual Responsibility

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Scott Aaronson: Is the Brain a Computer?

Review of “The Bed Trick” by Izabella Scott – a bizarre story of sexual duplicity

How did a stereopticon lecturer and his white-supremacist son end up in novels by Edith Wharton and F. Scott Fitzgerald?

The Messed Up Truth About The Dred Scott Case

How the Fed Became a Lender of Immediate Resort

How the Epstein Files Became the Ultimate Conspiracy Theory

How the New Yorker story — short, plainly written, plotless, with slightly enigmatic endings — became a genre

What began as a magazine in search of answers became an activist organ certain it possessed them all. Marco Roth on how n+1 lost its way

How ‘America First’ Became ‘America Alone’

Shut out of plum positions because of his political sins, Malcolm Cowley became a triple-threat hired gun: reporting, reviewing, editing