No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Most Devastating of Losses and the Meaning of Life

Why does every mammal get 1 billion heartbeats in their life?

New NYU Brennan Center Article on "Using State Constitutions to Combat Exclusionary Zoning"

Some More Or Less Tentative Thoughts on Substack

AI Must Enlarge the Economy, Not Divide It

Chicago Homeowner Sues Border Cops for Warrantless Raid

Hasan Piker and Code Pink Went to Cuba. Now They Might Be Under Investigation.

Microfossils Help Crack Mystery More Than 100 Million Years in the Making

Fauci Pleads the Fifth, Pluribus, Ross Douthat's New CBS Gig

Vickie Vainionpää’s “Soft Logic” at Gainesboro Modern

Patrick O'Brian invented his Irish childhood, his years at sea, his very name. His readers forgave him 

The Donkey and the Meaning of Life

Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

How to Live a Miraculous Life

Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming Yourself Across the Sweep of Life

How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simone de Beauvoir on Love and Friendship

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

How to Bear Your Sorrows: Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

Christopher Marlowe: alienated skeptic, government spy, counterfeiter, dead at 29. Shakespeare's debt to the man was simply inestimable.

Why We Stopped Burying Our Dead at Home

In 39 States, People Can Be Sentenced to Life for Murders They Did Not Commit