The Eye Moves

Seattle’s Grocery Store Debacle

Lenders Don’t Trust the United States Anymore

American Neoliberalism: Michel Foucault’s Birth of Biopolitics Lectures

Today in Supreme Court History: September 27, 1787

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Egomaniacs, psychos, and informants. Why is it we look past all sorts of ugliness and insist on mythologizing revolutionaries?

'I Would Be the Greatest Communist in History'

How to Handle a Narcissistic and Abusive Parent: Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to Father

Rhythm and Revolution

Patricio Guzmán (1941 – 2026) Chilean Filmmaker

The End of Oak Street Is a Nasty, Effective Exercise in Dino Terror

The ominous ‘fire clouds’ or ‘pyrocumulonimbus’ seen in France for the first time

How Art Invented Humanity

Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought conditions

In his diary, the Italian litterateur Cesare Pavese boasted: “I am king. In the course of ten years, I have done it all.” Then he set to arranging his death

The phrase ‘fiercely private’ is often applied to artists who secretly love the attention. Anita Brookner wasn’t one of them

Jonathan Franzen used to consider TV the "enemy." Now it looks like an ally: He's working on a script to adapt The Corrections

Now Entering: The Era Of Bleh

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Let The People Set The Pace Of Frontier AI