Criticism and Critical Thinking

The Demand Side of Our New Political Reality

Sean Carroll’s Mindscape Podcast: Andrew Guthrie Ferguson on How Your Data Will Be Used Against You

Marcus Aurelius on the Good Luck of Your Bad Luck: The Stoic Strategy for Weathering Life’s Waves and Turning Suffering into Strength

The Federal Spending Spree Will Make the Next Economic Shock Even Worse

The American Psychological Association Plays Both Sides of the Gender Debate

Mitochondria packaged in blood cell membranes improve disease symptoms in mice

Gavin Newsom’s $114 Million Butterfly Bridge

Court Backs First-Grader in Suit Over School Reaction to 'Any Life' Matters Drawing

Three anesthesia drugs all have the same effect in the brain, MIT researchers find

Why Civilization Needs Better Manuals

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Trump's Marijuana Order Vindicates Longstanding Criticism of the Plant's Legal Classification

Thinking From Within The Ruins

Fanny Wright and the Radical Courage of Being Real: The Forgotten Woman Who Pioneered Scientific Thinking and Free Love in America

Magical Thinking Won’t Make Europe an AI Power

Is there a way to engage in biographical criticism without becoming a moralizing bore? Consider the case of Philip Roth

Karoline Leavitt's Unfair Criticism of CNN's Coverage

“One of the most consequential misunderstandings in the history of literary criticism turns on a single Greek word”

Did Western psychiatric taxonomies eliminate such disorders as “pibloktoq” (a wintertime psychosis) and “kufungisisa” (thinking too much)?

Court Requires That Vulgar Criticism of Mayor Be Obscured, but Eventually Changes Course

Laid off from The Washington Post, the critic Ron Charles turns to books that ask a fundamental question: Do I matter?