In Search of the Leisure Class

Severe malaria may affect children’s cognitive abilities more than a decade later

Leaked Supreme Court Memos Reveal Why Court Stayed Clean Power Plan (Setting Important "Shadow Docket" Precedent in the Process)

Call Him Judge Ho Ho Ho

Elitist critics condemn literary “slop,” but in 50 years they may write redemptive theories of such slop and cut the ribbon at the Slop Museum

Ukraine Has Written Off the United States

Elon Musk's Mistaken Call for a 'Universal High Income'

How Lonely Walks in Nature Can Make You Feel Less Alone

An Ancient Mummy’s Tooth Could Rewrite Script of Scarlet Fever in the New World

Check Out the Largest 3-D Map of the Universe

Thinking in Crisis

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Class Warfare Returns

Are do-gooders an inferior class, consigned to drudgery? Elizabeth Anderson traces the contours of the progressive work ethic

A search for answers

New MIT class uses anthropology to improve chatbots

David Brooks on the sins of the educated class, what Trump gets rights, and why he's leaving The New York Times for Yale University

The Great Blue Heron, Signs vs. Omens, and Our Search for Meaning

Oscar Wilde, William Morris, and John Ruskin were exemplars of socialist aesthetics, advancing the view that more leisure would result in better art

Ghosts, Love, and the Search for Readers: A two-part conversation with writer Kipling Knox

We are wealthier than Aristotle could have imagined, yet spend little of that wealth on what he believed it was for: leisure

The Derivative Depravity of the Epstein Class