The Three Elements of the Good Life

Where Have All the Good Lawyers Gone?

The Only Three Distinctions Between People

The Revolutionary Life of George Forster

Radical proposal would block solar storms with orbital ‘airbag’

Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain

Sunday Poem

Open Thread

Motherland on High

Spiraling Out of Control

The Trump Administration Wants to Frighten Would-Be Whistleblowers

Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life

Not simply trivia, not simply a hobby — for the believer, quiz verges on a way of life

MIT Corporation elects 10 term members, two life members for 2026

Trump Loves Accusing Critics of Treason. U.S. Law Makes That Charge Hard To Prove—for Good Reason.

Scene at MIT: A nanoscientist graduates with her very good boy

The Donkey and the Meaning of Eternity: Nobel-Winning Spanish Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Love Letter to Life

The Conscience of the City: On the life of the garbageman

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A Day in the Life of a Crime Reporter (with the New York Post’s Joe Marino)

"The age when you can run a literary magazine on trust is over. You can either decide AI submissions are fine, or you can filter for them"