If You Want a Real Digital Commons, Build It Yourself

“The real secret to beating envy is to realize that envy, in addition to being a great vice and an internal poison, is a drag”

Silicon Valley’s self-styled futurists build marvelous machines. Their politics, though, recycle discredited ideas. Jill Lepore explains

Artist Hayley Barker: I Want Beauty to Continue

NYC Officials Bizarrely Want To 'Save' an AMC Movie Theater From a Hospital Expansion

I won’t remain alone

Wednesday Poem

Human Vision Has Quirks That AI Can’t Match

66 million years ago, the dinosaurs died – but ants thrived, and scientists just figured out why

The Challenge and Promise of Reflective Patriotism

Hoover Daily Report | October 6, 2026

Why “Zombie Cells” Build Up as We Age

Before puritanism and personality cults made it boring, affect theory brimmed with real intellectual potential. Laura Kipnis explains

Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings

What History Tells Us About the AI Debate

How An Accidental Virus Release Triggered 1977’s “Russian Flu”

Bruno Kramm (1967 – 2026) Goth Musician

Dostoyevsky on What Makes a Good Person

WITH PIERS MORGAN: THE IRAN WAR’S NEXT ESCALATION

Coral Reef-Like Rock Layers on Mars Reveal Ancient Climate Secrets

Ocean of Stars: A Painted Poem About How to Bear the Astonishment of Life