Why is everything sold to us as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself?

Defending Our Consciousness Against the Algorithms

The Experience Machine: Cognitive Philosopher Andy Clark on the Power of Expectation and How the Mind Renders Reality

Hoover Daily Report | April 17, 2026

Walt Whitman’s Field Guide to Being Yourself: The Trial and Triumph of Leaves of Grass

Brooding on verandas, slurping Pepsi Max, carefully observing the color of urine — across thousands of pages, certain Knausgaardian tropes repeat

Today in Supreme Court History: April 18, 1775

Today in Supreme Court History: April 19, 1920

Report: High Taxes and Burdensome Regulations Are Killing California

Troubling News for Jews from the Michigan Democratic Party

Wagner Gone Wrong

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

"Most historians would rather go out naked in public than prune their copious footnotes." Not Albert O. Hirschman 

Felon's Living with Family Members Who He Knows Own Guns Doesn't Itself Show "Possession" Under State Ban on Felons Possessing Guns

Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning

The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing

Frederick Douglass Knew That Liberty Means the Freedom of Self-Responsibility

The Orality Theory of Everything

Ibram X. Kendi treats racist ideas as an all-powerful means of control, and the realities underlying right-wing grievance as exaggerated — if not illusory

Michael Lentz – Basically, I Would Rather Be A Poem

The Federal Government Was Told To Make a List of Everything It Funds. 15 Years Later, There Still Isn't One.

When “Kin” Means Anyone