Morgan Meis on The Sublime

Mamdani’s First Veto Exposes His Radical Activist Roots

An Occasion for Unselfing: Iris Murdoch on Imperfection and How to Be More Unselfish

Sabastian Sawe's Sub-2 Marathon Is What Human Progress Looks Like—and Capitalism Helped Build It

New York City, Governed by Vibes

The New York art critic Jerry Saltz recently unearthed 40,000 slides: Here’s what the art world of the 1990s looked like

"Turning gold into gold." What's it like to translate the Bard into Bengali, and Lear’s verdict on Cordelia into Chinese?

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The Age of American Caesarism

What Happens When Giants Disappear from Ecosystems?

The Difficult Balance of Intimacy and Independence: Beloved Philosopher and Poet Kahlil Gibran on the Secret to a Loving and Lasting Relationship

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Morgan Meis on Franz Marc, the Battle of Verdun, and painting as prophecy

Morgan Meis on Three Painters (Rubens, Marc, Mitchell)

Jed Perl: “Morgan Meis’s Three Paintings Trilogy is the most exciting new writing about the visual arts to appear in a generation”

Open Thread

Break It To Make It: How Fracturing Sculpts Tissues and Organs

Today in Supreme Court History: March 25, 2014

Wes Jackson: A Misfit Trying to Change the Future of Farming

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Today in Supreme Court History: March 3, 2019

A New Age-Verification Bill Could Make You Show ID To Use a Computer or Smartphone