Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life

How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love

A day in the life of MIT MBA student Patrick Yeung

Bill Maher On The Blatant Double Standard For Antisemitism

More Than Half of L.A.’s Homeless Are Not from L.A.

Single-molecule tracker illuminates workings of cancer-related proteins

The canine gaze. Dogs in Western art are surrogate viewers and compositional anchors

Cartographic Justice for Africa

The Most Interesting Part of Trump’s Prayer Rally

The Earthquake Illusion

Translating Kafka. Borges found freedom in his labyrinths. For Primo Levi, it was like recovering from an illness

Rare seals spotted snoozing in an underwater ‘bubble cave’

He was a spy, a Zen priest, a fisherman, and a Bigfoot obsessive: Peter Matthiessen never had just one life

The Good Life: Some of What I Know

Maryland's Energy Crisis Was Created In Annapolis

No Discovery into Alleged "Actual Malice" in Trump's Lawsuit Against WSJ Over Jeffrey Epstein Birthday Letter Story

What Lamarck’s Giraffe Got Right

Open Thread

The Anarchists Who Thought Mao Was on Their Side

The “Pipeline” Problem That Medical Schools Don’t Want to Discuss

A State-Level Agenda for Higher-Ed Reform