Great books programs have an unsavory reputation on the political left. That’s a mistake

A drug addict, a confidence man, an adulterer: The attacks on Freud’s reputation may matter in an academic context, but not in a literary one

How the Left Accidentally Bolstered the Nativist Right

Gorsuch, Barrett, and Roberts Raise Fatal Objections to Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order

There Is No “Epidemic” of Transgender Murders

The Intelligence of Emotions: Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How Storytelling Rewires Us and Why Befriending Our Neediness Is Essential for Happiness

The Return Of The Moral State

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing but the truth is more worrying

Trump Bullying Allies To Help in Iran Suggests He Knows the War Is Not Going Well

Gavin Newsom’s Empire of Fraud

Today in Supreme Court History: March 31, 1962

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Is "great replacement" the grand unifying political theory of our time? Ibram X. Kendi is back

Bolster civil discourse and the Great Books, or purge “commies”? The right is at war with itself over how to reform the university

George Scialabba is no fan of political theory: “Imagination, sympathy, solidarity — by whatever name: this is the true engine of political progress”

AI-produced books have begun to flood Amazon, whether coloring books or derivative novels. What they’re missing, of course, is an artistic ego

Urban dandelions have evolved to stay close to home. That’s bad news

The Ultimate Best Books of 2025 List

Free Speech Unmuted: Equal Time, Stephen Colbert, and the Future of Political Broadcasting, with Stuart Benjamin

Christmas Creep Has Left Us Confused

Harassment Restraining Order Stemming from Dispute Among Local Political Figures Vacated on Appeal

Harassment Order Stemming from Dispute Among Local Political Figures Vacated on Appeal