Is Poverty Relative?

Brothzilla, or "It's a Cruel Thing to Disrupt Your Estranged Sister's Expensive Destination Wedding"

Remembering Grazia Deledda

American Neoliberalism: Michel Foucault’s Birth of Biopolitics Lectures

How to Handle a Narcissistic and Abusive Parent: Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to Father

Rhythm and Revolution

Patricio Guzmán (1941 – 2026) Chilean Filmmaker

Catherine Ringer (1957 – 2026) Singer And Artist

The Weasel and the Meaning of It All: Annie Dillard on How to Live

How Biden Averted a War With Iran

Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness

Texas Wants Free Speech on Campus—With Exceptions

Egomaniacs, psychos, and informants. Why is it we look past all sorts of ugliness and insist on mythologizing revolutionaries?

Harold Cruse was as pure an autodidact as any 20th-century university scholar. Tuskegee wouldn't hire him. Michigan gave him tenure

We fear AI as Frankenstein's monster – and forget that Mary Shelley's warning was about the scientist, not the creature

In his diary, the Italian litterateur Cesare Pavese boasted: “I am king. In the course of ten years, I have done it all.” Then he set to arranging his death

Jonathan Franzen used to consider TV the "enemy." Now it looks like an ally: He's working on a script to adapt The Corrections

Now Entering: The Era Of Bleh

The Two-Year Temper Tantrum to Come

Open Thread

A Russia Sanctions Bill Would Give Trump Vast New Tariff Powers