Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness

Friday Poem

Seattle’s Grocery Store Debacle

Lenders Don’t Trust the United States Anymore

Paternity is poetical

Flaubert, Madame Bovary And The Birth Of Realism

Brothzilla, or "It's a Cruel Thing to Disrupt Your Estranged Sister's Expensive Destination Wedding"

Why Empathy Is Now ‘Toxic,’ ‘Suicidal,’ and a ‘Sin’

The Babies Left Behind in America

The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis – Full Session

How Murdering Suspected Drug Smugglers Became the New Normal

Bertrand Russell – Authority and the Individual

For Chekhov, doomsaying was an ingeniously disguised form of sloth — and modern disenchantment an epidemic worth curing

Data Centers and the Liberal State

$1.1M Libel Award to Drag Performer Who Had Been Accused of Exposing Himself Upheld

Post-Liberal Europe?

A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety

Annie Dillard “was a sort of drill sergeant of human consciousness: determined, always, to force herself, and others, to see”

Thursday Poem

Malcolm Gladwell speaks with David Remnick about “The American Way of Killing”

Trump's Banishment of Disfavored News Outlets Reflects His Contempt for Freedom of the Press