Swimming and the Meaning of Life

The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular

How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for Our Resistance to Change

Texas Juries Decide Child Custody Cases

Putin Can No Longer Hide His Catastrophe

Steward of the Senate

Abigail Spanberger Vetoes Mandatory Collective Bargaining, Defying Virginia Unions

Open Thread

Why College Students Are Booing AI

President Trump Doesn't Need Congressional Approval for His Actions as to Iran

The Young Oikophobes

Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life

How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love

A day in the life of MIT MBA student Patrick Yeung

Most of L.A.’s Street Homeless Aren’t From L.A.

Whose Streets?

Open Thread

Are Humanoid Robots the End of Human Work?

Dangerous Groups Hide Behind Nonprofits

The “Pipeline” Problem That Medical Schools Don’t Want to Discuss

MIT economist Whitney Newey awarded Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics