Personal tech, social media, and the “decline of humanity”

Catspeak

The Nineteenth-Century French Poetry in New York Punk’s Scene

Arm the Resistance?

Nick Lane on the Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

What Makes America Strong?

Yes, States May Prosecute ICE Agents for Misconduct

He championed Joyce, mentored Eliot, and broadcast fascist propaganda. Ezra Pound was indispensable as an artist and irredeemable as a man

An Emerson for our times? Terry Tempest Williams’s “epic documentation of the Glorians” is full of celestial beings and desert miracles

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

Many heat-stressed tropical insects are reaching their limits

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

David Rieff, Doritos, and the intellectual deformations of social media. “I don’t exactly think better of myself for all the time I spend on Twitter”

Are Seed Oils Bad for You? Debunking a Viral Social Media Myth

Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial Starts Today in California

A 'Goldilocks' Effect for Online Teens? Moderate Social Media Users Fare Better Than Abstainers or Heavy Users

You’re Probably Not Addicted to Social Media

Spain Wants To Ban Social Media for Kids. It Won't Work.

In 2013 Mary Gaitskill told students to “Go home and look between your legs and tell me if that is a social construct.” All hell broke loose

Moltbook: A social network for AI agents and possibly “The most important place on the internet right now”

Times Higher Education ranks MIT No. 1 in arts and humanities, business and economics, and social sciences for 2026

Iran Is Trying To Silence Dissent. Western Media Are Breaking Through Anyway.