Thomas Bernhard on Walking, Thinking, and the Paradox of Self-Reflection

Dawkins’s paradox: dissecting the body’s battle to keep selfish genes in check

The Transgender Tide Has Turned at the Supreme Court

Massachusetts Denial of Gun Rights Restoration Reversed by Appellate Court

Why Does Trump Want the Biggest Defense Budget Ever?

The Real AI Race

Mercy from on High

Why SCOTUS Ruled 8–1 Against Colorado's 'Conversion Therapy' Ban

Journalism’s Better Days

Mamdani’s Equity Plan Misses What Makes New York Expensive

On Being Afraid of Iranians

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

How to write a novel for the age of the algorithm? Look to the literature of the past. Look to Thomas Bernhard

Walking “a fine line between principled opposition and crankdom,” the film critic A.S. Hamrah rails against Rotten Tomatoes, texting at the movies, and digital projection

Thinking From Within The Ruins

In Tariffs Dissent, Clarence Thomas Embraced a Dangerous Theory of Executive Power

Magical Thinking Won’t Make Europe an AI Power

An idolatrous, consumerist faith in AI that has distorted our thinking about human life and human meaning

There were two Thomas Manns: the early, coolly ironic author of Death in Venice — and the later, literary spokesman for democracy

The Paradox of Contemporary AI: Engineering Success and Institutional Failure

Fanny Wright and the Radical Courage of Being Real: The Forgotten Woman Who Pioneered Scientific Thinking and Free Love in America

Brickbat: Walking in a Winter Wonderland