Mary Beard Ranks The Ancients

Thucydides the perspicacious

Lessons From Singapore: Embracing Globalism

This Ichthyosaur Chomped a Pterosaur—Then Got Chomped by Something Bigger

Court Quashes Subpoenas to Anti-Defamation League in ASU Pro-Palestine Student Protest Case

Open Thread

Tuesday Poem

Lean In—to Other People

The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta

Perceptions

Towards an AI for Africa

The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Creativity and Time

Who's Paying for the Discounts in Mamdani's City-Run Grocery Stores?

AI versus Therapists

How to spot pseudoscience

Records Show the Government Illegally Surveilled James Comey and Confirm the Absurdity of Its Case Against Him

The World’s Largest Democracy Gets a Second Chance

Mud below, sun above

How to Bear Your Sorrows: Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular

Blackie & Co.: A Blackbird’s Lesson in Friendship