The Art of the Sacred Pause and Despair as a Catalyst of Regeneration

Loitering towards war

For Workers on Alaska’s North Slope, You “Sleep When You’re Dead”

For Gen Z, periods at the ends of sentences are passive aggressive and “correct punctuation itself is a signal of irony”

"Are LLMs Stifling Political Speech? An Assessment of How AI Models Protect Free Expression"

Hidden Creatures by Dino Martins

Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

Diana Grass: Listening to the body’s language

Open Thread

Illinois Will Finally Stop Stripping People of Their Home Equity—3 Years After the Supreme Court Outlawed It

Trump Just Did More Damage to American Elections Than China

The Estranged Worlds of J. G. Ballard

A Project of Many Parts

Man, Machine, and Market

The Purpose of Development Cooperation Is to Be Unnecessary

Emergency! and the Legalization of Paramedic Services

Blowhard, Patriot, President

Ten thousand books in 600 square feet: For a young member of the literati, it was a temple of the mind; for his landlord, it was a fire hazard

Inside the Rise of the Anti–Data Center Movement

A Japanese Wake-Up Call for America

A poet and a theologian grope towards meaning by mail, trading letters about faith and friendship for two years