Russell Kirk’s Tragic Sense of Life

Keith Haring on Creativity, Self-Doubt, and the Love of Life in the Face of Death

The Asymmetry Between Pleasure and Pain: Is Life Worth Living?

How Not to Waste Your Life

‘What are we doing here?’ The polymaths who searched for the meaning of life

A Forgotten Freedom?

Announcing the New, Completely Redesigned Reason App

Conflicting Policies, Confused Investors, and the Weak Dollar

New in City Journal: Let's Fix Our Federal Holiday Schedule

The Republicans Made Peace With Science

Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Elegy for Her Soul Mate

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

How to Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life

Are we on the verge of creating synthetic life?

The Gypsy Life of Robert Louis Stevenson

Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life

Darwin’s Greatest Regret and His Deathbed Reflection on What Makes Life Worth Living

Can an AI be endowed with a sense of morality? Amanda Askell is fashioning a soul for Claude

The war between writers and editors can be long, brutish, and nasty. "Every semicolon was a matter of life or death”

The Monarchs, Music, and the Meaning of Life: The Most Touching Deathbed Love Letter Ever Written

A Life of One’s Own: A Penetrating Century-Old Field Guide to Self-Possession, Mindful Perception, and the Art of Knowing What You Really Want

The novelist George Sand dressed like a man, took a male name and went through lovers like a rake. The life and the work cannot be disentangled