Americans are not as well off as people in peer nations

We are entering a world of extreme cognitive polarization. Some people will use AI to think more. Others will use AI to think less 

Victor Willis (1951 – 2026) Lead Singer of Village People

Religious rites, rock concerts, and other transcendent moments stem from directing our attention to “something more than human”

Hydrogen: clean fuel of the future — if we can find a cheap and clean way to ship it

America the Great

Open Thread

Trespassing

In Praise of the World Cup’s Little Guys

Why Some Wealth Gaps Closed—and Others Didn’t

Hannibal, Missouri is a company town, and the local industry is Mark Twain. "The perfume of manufactured nostalgia hangs heavy in the air"

Americans Will Never Shut Up or Do As We're Told

The War on Self-Driving Cars Will Kill People

Have people stopped trusting science? The data tell a surprising story

People with Past Mental Hospital Commitments May Regain Second Amendment Rights

The 5th Circuit Says a Houston Cop Reasonably Killed 2 Innocent People Falsely Accused of Selling Heroin

A Natural History of William Kentridge’s Studio

It Wasn’t Just the Founders

Vasily Grossman died believing that his masterpiece had been seized by the KGB and lost forever

Hit by a car, beset by family tragedy, diagnosed with cancer: William T. Vollmann may be dying, but he’s also just finished a 3,000 page opus

Two Ways to Remember the Declaration of Independence