Poetry at the Barricades: On the Imprisonment of Ahmed Douma

An Egalitarian Faith?

Open Thread

Nick Bostrom talks to Brian Greene about the Future of Humanity in an AI World

Reading the Clean Power Plan "Shadow Papers" in Context

It Doesn’t Matter Who Runs Apple

T.L. Taylor named 2026-27 CASBS Fellow

A Place for Intimacy: bell hooks on Language and Desire

Sixth Circuit Upholds Federal Law Banning Home Alcohol Distilleries, Creating a Circuit Split

Wednesday Poem

"Once the [Rainbow Flag] Cat Is out of the Bag, the Ball Game Is Over"

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Blue Is the Color of Desire: The Science, Poetry, and Wonder of the Bowerbird

The Nineteenth-Century French Poetry in New York Punk’s Scene

Despite science's efforts, consciousness isn't quantifiable. The hard problem remains stubbornly hard, but reading poetry may help

Larry Levis died in 1996, at the age of 49. His posthumously published poetry forms a towering body of work

Why Are We Not Better Than We Are: How Poetry Saves Lives

This Is a Poem That Heals Fish: An Almost Unbearably Wonderful Picture-Book About How Poetry Works Its Magic

Undoing as Remaking: How Abraham Lincoln Drew Poetry and Power from His Suicidal Depression

We associate confessional poetry with Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton. But Larry Levis’s confessionalism was different

In the Victorian era, discoveries upended humanity's place in the cosmos. Tennyson turned this metaphysical crisis into poetry

In 1894 a German archaeologist discovered the poetry of Bilitis, a Greek contemporary of Sappho’s. There was just one problem