American Loneliness

The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History, by the Numbers

Open Thread

Spain's largest research organization confronts its dark past

Rage of the Falling Elite

The rise of computer chips — and the race to control them

Friday Poem

Andy Serkis on Animal Farm, Authoritarianism, and Humanizing Monsters

Do Not Spare Yourself

Open Thread

"A Black Robe Is No Guarantee of Gray Matter"

Young John Berryman revered the elder generation of poets. By 1947, though, he diagnosed “a deadly and vacant period” in American poetry

Bolaño envy. Is Latin American literature, in its totality, more important than literature produced in the United States?

3 Kinds of Loneliness and 4 Kinds of Forever

Solitude and Survival in the Modern American West

Mamdani’s American Dream

The American Revolution Was Fought With Muskets and Ink

An Athenian View of American Democracy

The Harmony of the American Founding

Donald Trump Just Demonstrated the Value of Birthright Citizenship

In Praise of the World Cup’s Little Guys