Nick Cave on the Antidote to Our Existential Helplessness

This Week’s Photograph

Open Thread

How Do We Feel About Women's Work?

The French surrealists, stricken by serving in World War I, adopted a new philosophical approach: “vibrant pessimism”

How Social Media Became Antisocial

Spain's largest research organization confronts its dark past

Rage of the Falling Elite

Stop WOKE Is Stopped—But Reform of Higher Education Will Go On

A Closer Look: Drawings from Venice and Veneto

The rise of computer chips — and the race to control them

We are entering a world of extreme cognitive polarization. Some people will use AI to think more. Others will use AI to think less 

How Animals Communicate Across Species

Open Thread

Today in Supreme Court History: July 6, 1835

Discovery helps explain why solid-state batteries often fail

Colorectal Cancer and Childhood Exposure to a Common Gut Bacteria

Today in Supreme Court History: July 5, 1867

The ‘Consumer Socialism’ Trap

America’s Falling Birthrate

The Art of Remembering