A Beginning, Not a Decline: Colette on the Splendor of Autumn and the Autumn of Life

The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream

Court Packing Is a Bad Idea. But It's Still Constitutional.

Second Amendment Roundup: ATF's "Firearm" and "Frame or Receiver" Rules Invalid

A Somali Man With No Serious Criminal Record Is Spending 9/11 in Detention at Guantanamo Bay

Some Bribes, as a Treat

OpenAI claims huge maths breakthrough on a famed ‘Millennium Problem’

September 11 and the Loss of Certainty

The Big Picture

Court Blocks Investigation of AI-Generated Video About Vermont Political Candidates Because Video Is Obviously "Ridiculous"

What the Aftermath of 9/11 Taught Me

Inside the Tumultuous Private Life of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan

I Long to Read More in the Book of You: Moomins Creator Tove Jansson’s Tender and Passionate Letters to the Love of Her Life

The secret life of a cell-cycle gatekeeper of breast cancer

The Beginning of the End of History

Many Space Missions Are Searching for Life Beyond Earth—But Are We Prepared for the Fallout If They Succeed?

On the Life and Philosophy of Henri Bergson

How to Change Your Life

Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life

The Backlash Against Data Centers Is Bipartisan, Nationwide, and Wrong