What Is The Original Meaning of "Sectarian"?

Today in Supreme Court History: March 22, 1957

How Well Do Americans Understand the Melting Pot?

Court Refuses to Block Continued Distribution of DOGE Witness Deposition Videos

M. C. Escher’s “Print Gallery” and the complex analysis it invites

ICE Insists Liberia Is the Only Place It Can Deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Marc Andreessen says introspection is a Viennese import from the 1920s. Montaigne, Bacon, and Descartes beg to differ 

Why We Don’t Have a Lyme Disease Vaccine

Fitbit Data Sheds Light on Best Time to Exercise  

Mail-In Ballots, the 2026 Election, and the Supreme Court

The Strategic Follies of the Islamic Republic

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

The Original Meaning of Birthright Citizenship

“Anguish,” “agony,” “ache,” “affliction” — why are there so many words for pain? Darcey Steinke unpacks the meaning of suffering

The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream

The Middle Passage: A Jungian Field Guide to Finding Meaning and Transformation in Midlife

Roots and the Meaning of Life

The Leaf that Wouldn’t Fall: A Tender Illustrated Parable about the Measure and Meaning of Love

Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life

The Meaning of Intellectual Conservatism

Sleep and the Meaning of Life: Fernando Pessoa on the Existential Dimension of the Horizontal Hours

Octavia Butler on Change and the Meaning of God