The Courage of Vulnerability: Teenage Frida Kahlo’s Moving Letters to Her First Love

Nick Cave on Creative Work as an Instrument of Self-Forgiveness and the Courage of Hope in Cynical Times

Poem by Jim Culleny

Today in Supreme Court History: March 31, 1962

Now We Know What the Insects of the Jurassic Period Sounded Like

The Supreme Court Has Heard This One Before

Is Trump killing the heralded U.S. effort to help the world battle HIV?

Blaise Pascal’s Night of Fire

Nuclear Deterrence Is No Longer Enough

Remaking Europe’s Energy System for the Age of AI

Boundaries Dissolving: The Secret Power of the Eleusinian Mysteries

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

"It’s weird: in Updike’s teenage letters he sounds preternaturally sophisticated; in his forties, he sounds like a horny kid"

Fanny Wright and the Radical Courage of Being Real: The Forgotten Woman Who Pioneered Scientific Thinking and Free Love in America

Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan Gilbert

What Makes a Soul Mate: Roxane Gay on Loving vs. Being in Love

The Trouble with Love

The Mystical Theology of Love – Bernard of Clairvaux

The Purest Definition of Love, the Qualities of a Lasting Relationship, and the Salve for the Betrayals of Time

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

Sylvia Plath meditated in hers. Frida Kahlo painted her whole life floating in one. Is the bathtub a political object?

The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul