One Thing Every Modern President Has in Common: They All Spent More Than the Last Guy

Elitist critics condemn literary “slop,” but in 50 years they may write redemptive theories of such slop and cut the ribbon at the Slop Museum

The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing

Eric Swalwell, Pope Fight, Tax Day Woes

Conservatives Want the Government To Pay Americans To Get Married and Have Kids

Brooding on verandas, slurping Pepsi Max, carefully observing the color of urine — across thousands of pages, certain Knausgaardian tropes repeat

The Substance of the Clean Power Plan Memos

The Turkish novelist Leylâ Erbil was an autodidact and outcast who liked being mad, bad, and sad in a nation of pious Kemalists

The Bipartisan War on Cheap Food

Mary Oliver’s Advice on Writing

Open Thread

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

AIs can ‘memorize’ data they shouldn’t. Can they be forced to forget?

“The humanities are not a system for the production of positive ‘research results.’ They are a practice of self-cultivation, or they are nothing”

When Michelangelo met Titian. The evidence of how they influenced each other is scant, and we so enter the realm of the educated guess

Typists, editors, and arbiters of art. Literary amanuenses like Theodora Bosanquet, Véra Nabokov, and Valerie Eliot shaped modern literature

Mamdani Discovers Common Sense on Homeless Sweeps

Judges and Justices Should Be Independent, Trump Says, As Long As They Side With Him

Annotating President Trump's Press Conference About The Tariffs Ruling

Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong – They Can’t Take That Away From Me

Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality

'Every Bridge in Iran Will Be Decimated'