Rising US life expectancy isn’t what it seems

The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on How to Grow Old and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart

“My wonderful horseykins,” “my little sperm whale.” If Chekhov’s love life was epistolary, what are we to make of his fondness for brothels?

Dispatching Humphrey’s Executor

Tyler Austin Harper found his “dream job” at Bates College. Then came the racial audits and talk of a “would-be Klansmen around every corner”

Loner Kids May Be Happier Than You Think

Originalism’s Better Meaning

Today in Supreme Court History: August 13, 1788

How Karoline Leavitt Changed the White House Press Room

Robert Reich on Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan

How to Destroy a State, in Five Easy Steps

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

The Wisdom of Water: Alan Watts on the Ocean and the Meaning of Life

Is Life Fundamentally Computational?

France’s Best Argument Against Racism Isn’t Working

Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life

Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning

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

Swimming and the Meaning of Life

United Auto Workers or United Academic Workers?

I Say No To SubStack, And Chief Justice Roberts Says Yes