Does reading do us any good?

The Nautilus Reading List of Science Biographies

Reading the Clean Power Plan "Shadow Papers" in Context

ICE Is on a $45 Billion Building Spree. Can Small Towns Support These New Migrant Warehouses?

Stephanie Barclay on "The Emergency Docket's Mistaken Birthday"

What causes X? For lazy social scientists, everything can be attributed to “culture,” a point so vague that it effectively argues nothing at all

Globalization Made Howard Lutnick a Billionaire. Now He's Railing Against It as Trump's Commerce Chief.

Thursday Poem

We Don’t Need a Trial to Fight Kids’ Social Media Addiction

The Rise And Fall Of ‘Petty Tyrants’

If I Tried to Escape, I Would Be Killed

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

“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”

“Good politics, like good art, does not lecture or declaim. It strains; it argues; it is an unending negotiation with the difficult and intransigent adventure of humanity”

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

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

The Three Elements of the Good Life

Reading Infinite Jest Now

Hemingway’s Advice on Writing, Ambition, and His Reading List of Essential Books for Aspiring Writers

A Light in the Dark: Finding the Good in the Natural World

There Are Many Good Reasons To Criticize Kristi Noem. Her Husband's Sexual Interests Are Not Among Them.

Marcus Aurelius on the Good Luck of Your Bad Luck: The Stoic Strategy for Weathering Life’s Waves and Turning Suffering into Strength