Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life

Life, Death, and Who We Are Online

Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Existential Tremors

A Forgotten Literary Window Into the Personal Life of Alan Turing

The Canadian poet Margaret Avison lived with such intense inwardness that Northrop Frye called her “a conscientious objector to life”

How Not to Waste Your Life

G.K. Chesterton on the Dandelion and the Meaning of Life

Will the Real Marco Rubio Please Stand Up?

Looking beyond research

Open Thread

Mamdani and the Left’s Israel Fantasy

The Warrior Life of Ancient Egyptian Princesses

Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

How to Bear Your Sorrows: Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

From Mitochondria to Minds: The Illustrated Science of the Psychedelic Dream Called Life

Open Thread

Open Thread

The Lines the Court Won’t Cross

Open Thread

New York Becomes the First State To Ban New Data Centers

A Medical Conveyor Belt for Troubled Minors