Population Doomster and False Prophet of Ecological Apocalypse Paul Ehrlich Has Died

The Moral Beauty of Middlemarch

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The First Eco-Horror Film

The Real Fallout of Trump’s Tariffs

Pi and the Seductions of Infinity

Roots and the Meaning of Life

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Paul Giamatti & Stephen Asma talk about Writing, Acting, and the Untamed Imagination

Larry Levis died in 1996, at the age of 49. His posthumously published poetry forms a towering body of work

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New in Civitas: "The False Equivalence of Multicultural Day"

If you memorize the classic fallacies — ad hominem, post hoc, straw man — you inoculate yourself against them. That’s a nice, but false, idea

Freud died almost 90 years ago. His reputation has gone up and down. Is the jury really still out as to whether psychoanalysis works?

The Coming Crypto Apocalypse

Paul Bloom: Is there a God-shaped hole?

Counterculture prophet, Whole Earth cataloguer, proto-internet evangelist, Stewart Brand has a new obsession: maintenance

The Intellectual Edgelords of the GOP