Václav Havel, Writing from Prison, on How to Hold Your Failure

Radical proposal would block solar storms with orbital ‘airbag’

Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain

Sunday Poem

Open Thread

Motherland on High

Spiraling Out of Control

The Trump Administration Wants to Frighten Would-Be Whistleblowers

Trump’s Border Win

L.A. Can’t Fix Its Mansion Tax Mistake

British Steel Needs a Transformation, Not a Bailout

Britain’s Center Cannot Hold

"The age when you can run a literary magazine on trust is over. You can either decide AI submissions are fine, or you can filter for them"

Watch Immune System Cells Gobble Up Cancer Cells

Flickering Enlightenment

Alasdair MacIntyre believed that Western morality, having lost its rationale, was replaced by something thinner: mere moral passion  

William Kennedy’s Hard Luck and High Style

The Left’s Institutional Capture

Open Thread

Harold Bloom read everything, praised lavishly, and struggled mightily with self-doubt 

Today in Supreme Court History: May 30, 1865