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Luis Garicano on the Economics of Artificial Intelligence

The Force and the Flower: Poet and Potter M.C. Richards on Creativity

Dwight Garner: “The thin crust of American intellectual life, long flaking, has begun to show bald patches”

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Self-organizing “pencil beam” laser could help scientists design brain-targeted therapies

Judge Finds Epstein-Related Plaintiff Lies, Spoliation, and Lawyer Misconduct in Rape Lawsuit Against Investor Leon Black

Why Cooperation Falls Apart Over Time

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other

Fernando Pessoa on Unselfing into Who You Really Are

The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering

Unselfing into Oneness with the All: The Forgotten Visionary Margaret Fuller on Transcendence

Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding

Their Children Were Alone Outside. So Police Visited the Family—Twice.

The Story Behind TIME’s Our America Project

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