Francisco de Zurbarán

Poem by Jim Culleny

Open Thread

New York Times Recycles Same Old Story About Northern District of Texas

The Political Violence Double Standard

An Actual SCOTUS Nightmare

Against the Lewis Model

Federal Court Rules Speech-Based Deportations Violate the First Amendment

Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers

The Singapore strategies

A Society of Cheats

Open Thread

Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island

Extreme Heat Comes for the Red Chile Capital of Pakistan

RFK Jr. Wants More FDA Oversight of Food Ingredients. It Could End Up Costing $210 Million.

Before puritanism and personality cults made it boring, affect theory brimmed with real intellectual potential. Laura Kipnis explains

The End of Oak Street Is a Nasty, Effective Exercise in Dino Terror

The ominous ‘fire clouds’ or ‘pyrocumulonimbus’ seen in France for the first time

How Art Invented Humanity

Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought conditions

These 20 Words Are Worth a Thousand Pictures