See Ya, Swalwell

The Phantom Base

The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire

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

One woman, three autoimmune diseases: CAR-T therapy vanquishes ultra-rare disease trio

The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear

Have Americans Gotten Lazy?

Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance

The Eradication Of Grief

What was Euclid really doing?

Open Thread

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Robert Trivers, who died this week, “could be hilarious, infuriating, inappropriate, jocund, tactless, volatile, sometimes aggressive”

How to Understand Emerging Risks

Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance

Democrats Learned the Wrong Lesson From 2024

College students’ sense of meaning and purpose is internet-based and transactional. For them, the campus is a hustler’s paradise

Can Stephen A. Smith Fix the Democrats—by Breaking Them?

In Search of Banksy

Brickbat: Cool Down

Brickbat: Well-Housed

What to Make of the Gracie Mansion Incident