Paul Klee painted it. Walter Benjamin coveted it. And Morgan Meis spent a lifetime obsessing over it

Morgan Meis on Paul Klee’s “Angelus Novus” Painting

Darwin spent only five weeks in the Galápagos. He ate tortoise, rode tortoise, and drank tortoise urine

The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny: Some Notes on Wearables

Today in Supreme Court History: June 24, 2013

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The Anti-Fascist Fabulist

Mamdani’s Selective Socialism

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Listening for the echoes of black holes

Researchers caught in the crossfire as companies and government grapple over AI safety

Is there life after death? The psychiatrist Ian Stevenson spent his life collecting evidence. What he found was suggestive, but unprovable

America Spent a Fortune Shooting Down Cheap Drones. Now the Missile Stores Are Bare.

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Why U.K. Socialism Could Soon Be America's Problem

When the blogosphere gave way to Substack, writers gained audiences but lost each other. Noah Smith explains

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Open Thread

America's Founders Blended Liberalism and Religion