Saussure’s Bird and Wittgenstein’s Bild: The Origins of Our Ontological Dissensions

The Secret Origins of 'Conspiracy Theory'

Cities Show How Climate Action Makes Life Better

Diatoms and the Meaning of Life

Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable but it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself

The memories of others

Open Thread

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

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

What happens when environmental change outpaces life’s ability to adapt?

Exploring the societal impacts of AI

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

Open Thread

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

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America's Founders Blended Liberalism and Religion

What killed the masquerade ball: the rise of evangelical moral values or an increasing affordability, which rendered it less appealing to the aristocracy?

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

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

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Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go