True Love Will Find You in the End: Kurt Vonnegut on When to Stop Trying and When to Try Again

Kurt Vonnegut’s Life-Advice to His Children

Epictetus on Love and Loss: The Stoic Strategy for Surviving Heartbreak

Prohibition Didn't Stop Marijuana Use. It Stopped Marijuana Research.

If You Love America, Cringe for It

The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny: Some Notes on Wearables

Cities Show How Climate Action Makes Life Better

Mamdani’s Selective Socialism

Listening for the echoes of black holes

The Meaning of Ro Khanna

The Renaissance didn't begin in Florence. It began six thousand years ago in the Middle East. So argues a new book

Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning

Open Thread

Why U.K. Socialism Could Soon Be America's Problem

The Secret Origins of 'Conspiracy Theory'

When the blogosphere gave way to Substack, writers gained audiences but lost each other. Noah Smith explains

Dinosaurs, crocodilo-pythons, and other monsters populated the “lost world” novels that thrived between the 1880s and 1920s

Open Thread

Open Thread

America's Founders Blended Liberalism and Religion

Trump's Sabotage?