How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James

Somewhere in the 1980s, education became “learning,” and reading became a skill for completing tasks. We're living with the consequence

Mamdani Is the Centrist We’ve Been Waiting For

Iran Just Offered to Reopen Hormuz. Today, Russia Flies In to Broker It. Will Trump Take the Exit?

Sunday Poem

Department of Justice to fund studies of gender dysphoria and violent behavior

Who Should Defend Democracy?

The Hindu Temple Shooting Plot

The Failure of California’s Proposition 47

Watch This Snake Cartwheel Away From Danger

How intuitions work

'AI Kill Switch Act' Won't Stop Rogue AI, but It Will Slow Down Innovation

New York Schools Need to Stop Fixating on “Segregation”

The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom

Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness

A Ph.D. certifies expertise in a discipline. But ignorance is a precondition for thinking something new. James Miller explains

James Wood on Flaubert, Madame Bovary and the birth of realism

Why Some Americans Living Abroad Would Rather Renounce Their Citizenship Than File Taxes

Federal Judge Halts Minnesota's Prediction Market Ban, Signaling Other States' Efforts Might Be Illegal Too

Extreme Heat Comes for the Red Chile Capital of Pakistan

Before puritanism and personality cults made it boring, affect theory brimmed with real intellectual potential. Laura Kipnis explains