Fernando Pessoa on Unselfing into Who You Really Are

"I find myself being more and more difficult," Toni Morrison once said. "It's something I really relish." The difficulty was the point

Open Thread

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No Retroactive Pseudonymization in Federal Court Under California "Safe at Home" Program

Keith Haring on Creativity, Self-Doubt, and the Love of Life in the Face of Death

For Warmth: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Poetic Antidote to Anger

Are we hard-wired for infidelity?

New AI model could cut the costs of developing protein drugs

This Forest Rodent Serves as a Reservoir for the Deadly Mpox Virus

Michael Jackson – Billie Jean (Live 1983)

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Sleep and the Meaning of Life: Fernando Pessoa on the Existential Dimension of the Horizontal Hours

Freud died almost 90 years ago. His reputation has gone up and down. Is the jury really still out as to whether psychoanalysis works?

A Life of One’s Own: A Penetrating Century-Old Field Guide to Self-Possession, Mindful Perception, and the Art of Knowing What You Really Want

Are Historians Really Apolitical?

A Social-Media Ban Really Could Do a Lot of Good

“Being a literary sex symbol can really take it out of you, making it tougher to maintain your lofty dignity as a quoter of Kafka”

Fresh starts: how to thrive when you leave academia

The Year of the Starter Home

Chinese nuclear fusion reactor pushes plasma past crucial limit: what happens next

The academic community failed Wikipedia for 25 years — now it might fail us