Evil Heaton 'Fixes' Gerrymandering

The most interesting way to look at Edward Said is to see the political and the literary as having always been conjoined

AI Terrorism Is Just Terrorism

Substack founder Chris Best speaks with legendary music producer Rick Rubin about AI

“What does it feel like to commune with AI spirits? It is a shot of caffeine. It is a dizzy spell. It is a download from the universe.”

The Dark Wood of the Golden Birds: Margaret Wise Brown’s Lost Masterpiece about Mortality and the Meaning of Life, Newly Illustrated

Cornell’s Real Crisis Is Irrationalism, Not Rape

Brazil in Yet Another End-of-the-World Election

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Under Fire – a deeply affecting story of being stranded in Gaza

Trump Exempts Some Canadian Products From Section 338 Tariffs - But his Illegal Trade War Continues

“Liberalism’s deepest grounding,” Judith Shklar writes, is the belief “that cruelty is an absolute evil”

Before puritanism and personality cults made it boring, affect theory brimmed with real intellectual potential. Laura Kipnis explains

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

The European Union Wants To Punish People for Their Speech—Without Even a Trial

Reinventing Europe

Walking May Improve Your Attention Span

Howl at 70: “The last poem to hit the world with the impact of news and grip it with the tenacity of a pop song”