Brickbat: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, but You Can Never Leave

Brickbat: Raising Cane

Be Like Water: The Philosophy and Origin of Bruce Lee’s Famous Metaphor for Resilience

Sales-Tax Escalator

Subverting Hell

India’s Game-Changing Digital Money Model

It Ain’t Food Till The Feet Come Off

The film critic A.S. Hamrah has no use for plot description, boosterism, or takedowns. He focuses, instead, on continuities and contradictions

In the Victorian era, discoveries upended humanity's place in the cosmos. Tennyson turned this metaphysical crisis into poetry

As a Former Cop, I Have to Ask: What the Hell Is ICE Doing?

Why Are We Worthwhile?

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

The novelist George Sand dressed like a man, took a male name and went through lovers like a rake. The life and the work cannot be disentangled 

Brickbat: Cool Down

“Telling someone to love literature because reading is good for society is like telling someone to believe in God because religion is good for society”

Some Dogs Learn New Words Just Like Toddlers Do

Lessons of Darkness: The Sonic and Musical Experience of Time

Famous for telling writers to embrace their “shitty first drafts,” Bird by Bird is one of the most popular writing guides of all time. Is it any good?

Sci-Fi Cloaking Technology Takes a Step Closer to Reality With Synthetic Skin Like an Octopus

Jimmy Lai Got a 20-Year Sentence for Saying Things the Chinese Government Didn't Like

Brickbat: Bad Judgment

Scientists Discover Brain Circuit That Acts Like a ‘Brake’ on Motivation