Only the Lonely: Isolation, Seclusion, Solitude

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

No one is self-made

Open Thread

What Happens When We Die

America's Founders Blended Liberalism and Religion

The Complexity of Letting Go

Will It Take Superpowers, Spirits and Reincarnation to Save the Planet?

No, We Don’t Need to Ban Caste Discrimination

Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity

When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket

Looking back at “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”

Americans Still Believe in the Founding—and Want Schools To Teach Capitalism

A prototype differential atom interferometer for fundamental physics

1776 All-Stars: Why a Pseudonymous Anti-Federalist Is My Favorite Founder

Dwight Macdonald opposed World War II, denounced the atom bomb, and never found an ideological home. Was he right?

Toni Morrison believed that racial blackness and whiteness and redness — potent though they may be — are just that: stories 

Paracelsus & the Womb of Being

How the brain builds sentences, neuron by neuron

A Supreme Court Decision Restricting Appeal Waivers Underlines the Injustice of Coercive Plea Bargaining

MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing builds momentum