Seven Puzzles of the Pursuit of Happiness

What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life

Language skills stay strong in older adults, even while other cognitive abilities decline

Today in Supreme Court History: August 25, 1998

Should Deadly Self-Defense Be Tortious if Need for It Could Have Been Avoided "by Relinquishing the Exercise of [a] Right"?

Trump’s Korean Catastrophe

With a Heart for Any Fate: Early Notes from the Oregon Trail

Economic Isolation

What’s the Secret to Bats’ Super Longevity?

Volcanoes That Made History

Today in Supreme Court History: August 26, 1964

Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island

Paul Celan's childhood spanned seven languages and one vanishing world. His poetry created space to mourn and remember and survive 

Open Thread

Bad Reasons and Worse Reasons to Hate Data Centers

Fertility clinics are offering young mitochondria in controversial fertility technique

The Canary in the AI Coal Mine

How to Lose a Trade War

Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life

Open Thread

Damages Award Stemming from Project Veritas Project Set Aside by D.C. Circuit