The Populism-to-Paperwork Pipeline

Bob Dylan on the Unconscious Mind and the Ideal Conditions for Creative Work

Milestone cancer vaccine success leaves hard questions unanswered

Honest Men Turned Knaves

Two new books on Edward Said read his criticism alongside the work of Jonathan Swift and Lionel Trilling

Drastic Rise in Transgender-Related Diagnoses Among Washington Youth

When Texas Bat “Cities” Look Like Thunderstorms

The Agonistic Constitution

Open Thread

Cornell’s Real Crisis Is Irrationalism, Not Rape

We Need to Talk About Community Violence Intervention

Friday Poem

What’s Driving Persistent Inflation?

PS Events: Reinventing Europe – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

The Unexpected Literary History of the Dildo

What made Cormac McCarthy a great writer? The sound of his prose, in its full excess and strangeness

The Fusionist Mind

Persistence, teamwork, and some healthy competition

Bhutan: the last place

Why Satire Is No Laughing Matter

The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet