Alain de Botton On Love, Perversion And Suffering

No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Most Devastating of Losses and the Meaning of Life

New NYU Brennan Center Article on "Using State Constitutions to Combat Exclusionary Zoning"

Chicago Homeowner Sues Border Cops for Warrantless Raid

Hasan Piker and Code Pink Went to Cuba. Now They Might Be Under Investigation.

AI Has Already Entered The ‘Loss Of Control’ Transition

Patrick O'Brian invented his Irish childhood, his years at sea, his very name. His readers forgave him 

High-speed orcas are blowing sunfish to smithereens

Trump's New Director of National Intelligence Is a Menace to Liberty

Resist the technocrats

The Incoherence of the Iran Hawks

Trenchant but sententious, John Berger could sound like Platonov one moment, the next like Alain de Botton

How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simone de Beauvoir on Love and Friendship

Love Anyway

Sean Carroll and Brian Greene talk physics

New York City’s Hate Crime Problem Needs a Law-and-Order Solution

Nigel Farage's Reform U.K. Party Reports Green Party Leader's Guillotine Instagram Post to Police

Seneca called it existential nausea. Monks called it the noonday demon. Boredom changes names but always returns

Xanadu, the "Home of Tomorrow" that promised automation as liberation, was run on a "house brain," another word for mother

The New York Times On Heritage Foundation 2.0

Nolan’s Odyssey v. Homer’s Odyssey