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The E.U. Wants 'Deforestation-Free' Products. Consumers May Pay the Cost.

In the Victorian era, discoveries upended humanity's place in the cosmos. Tennyson turned this metaphysical crisis into poetry

As a Former Cop, I Have to Ask: What the Hell Is ICE Doing?

Rubio’s Silk-Stocking Diplomacy

Today in Supreme Court History: February 16, 1833

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

Non-Hegemony

“Most people who subscribe to scientific materialism take it to be so obviously correct that it could not be denied by any rational person who truly understood it”

Here’s What the Whiskers on an Elephant’s Trunk Do

America’s Atomic Habits

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

“This is science!” – MIT president talks about the importance of America’s research enterprise on GBH’s Boston Public Radio

Pink Noise Could be Ruining Your Sleep

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

My Debut in The UnPopulist

How Thousands of Randos Like Me Landed in the Epstein Files

Democrats Plan To Block DHS Funding After Minnesota Killing. Republicans Should Join Them.

Daniel Berrigan’s Spiritual Radicalism

Fernando Pessoa on Unselfing into Who You Really Are

Carnival Strikes Back

Carrie Prejean Boller Refuses To Address Candace Owens's Anti-Semitic Comments