The Revolutionary Life of George Forster

Open Thread

"Ukraine Turns Real-Life Kills into Video Game Thrills for Drone Pilots"

The Truth About Slavery and America

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

Sunday Poem

Today in Supreme Court History: May 31, 1860

The Satanic Temple Loses Libel Suit Against Newsweek Over "Accounts of Sexual Abuse Being Covered up" Allegation

Today in Supreme Court History: May 30, 1865

Use It or Lose It

Indiana Police Misplace More Than $30,000 Seized in Massage Parlor Raids

MIT Corporation elects 10 term members, two life members for 2026

Not simply trivia, not simply a hobby — for the believer, quiz verges on a way of life

Life recombined

The Donkey and the Meaning of Eternity: Nobel-Winning Spanish Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Love Letter to Life

A Day in the Life of a Crime Reporter (with the New York Post’s Joe Marino)

The Conscience of the City: On the life of the garbageman

A day in the life of MIT Sloan Fellow Alecia Asiamigbe

Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life

"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"

A Snippet of a Conversation Between ChatGPT and Me