Soft eyes, deep listening, and other ways to extend human perception

Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Talking Like a Human Being

“To see like a dog in a work of art is to have moral perceptions about human beings”

Kathryn Paige Harden on How Genetics Shapes Human Behavior

The humanities spent decades decentering the human. Now Big Tech is doing it better

Why Reading Is Now Restless

Open Thread

Make Britain Great Again

Teaching AI agents to ask better questions by playing “Battleship”

Donald Trump’s Superficiality Is Bone-Deep

Another Chance for Trump to Cash Out

The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses

‘Debate me!’ doesn’t work. Here are better ways to disagree – and maybe change minds

Spiraling Out of Control

Trump’s Border Win

Today in Supreme Court History: May 30, 1865

The Only Three Distinctions Between People

The Left’s Institutional Capture

L.A. Can’t Fix Its Mansion Tax Mistake

Open Thread

Every generation of professors has complained that their students cannot read. Now there’s data to back it up