Life Is a Story That Begins in the Middle: Bayo Akomolafe on the Rewilding Power of Obstacles

Review: The Short Life of a Formerly Enslaved Poet

The Supervisory Power Of The Supreme Court As A Form Of Virtue Signaling

Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island

Insomnia and the Secret Life of Ideas: Kafka on the Relationship Between Sleeplessness and Creativity

Open Thread

Brazil Moves To End the Six-Day Workweek

Carlo Ginzburg (1939 – 2026) Scholar and Historian

The Mayor Who Loves Bodegas Is Building Taxpayer-Funded Competitors

What Happens When We Die

Today in Supreme Court History: June 21, 1989

How political leaders use combat spectacles to symbolize national power and purpose

Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life

The Middle East’s New Normal

These Ancient Millipedes Paved the Way for Terrestrial Life

What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life

Cell transplant across the tree of life hints at how animals emerged

This Week’s Photograph

Progressive Dogma Is Fueling Academic Dishonesty

Birthright Citizenship, the Common Law, and the 39th Congress

Science Is Political—and Spiritual