"It Is Unfortunate That the Video of This Encounter Will Likely Go The Way of the Lost Ark Because It Doesn't Make for Good Clickbait"

Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss

The Disappointment of Young Trump Voters

Wayne Thiebaud’s Sweet Take on American Art

Words Without Consequence

Love Anyway

Poem by Jim Culleny

National Park Service removes references to Harriet Tubman from Underground Railroad webpage

The Unique Resilience of Iran’s Theocracy

Albert Camus on the Will to Live and the Most Important Question of Existence

Undoing as Remaking: How Abraham Lincoln Drew Poetry and Power from His Suicidal Depression

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Study: High-fat diets make liver cells more likely to become cancerous

“Good politics, like good art, does not lecture or declaim. It strains; it argues; it is an unending negotiation with the difficult and intransigent adventure of humanity”

“Telling someone to love literature because reading is good for society is like telling someone to believe in God because religion is good for society”

The poorly understood science of sensation. Music can make chocolate taste bitter; rice pudding can make you cry 

Police De-Escalation Training: What Is It Good For?

A new way to make steel could reduce America’s reliance on imports

Federal District Court Judge Rejects Minnesota's Anti-Commandeering Arguments Against DHS "Operation Metro Surge" (and with Good Reason)

Felon's Living with Family Members Who He Knows Own Guns Doesn't Itself Show "Possession" Under State Ban on Felons Possessing Guns

Humanity’s Last Exam Stumps Top AI Models—and That’s a Good Thing

It should be as good to remember a past joy as to anticipate a future one, reasoned Derek Parfit. Nonsense, argues Samuel Scheffler