Beyond Brexit—and Back to Europe

When Duchamp took New York: Europe spurned him, so he decamped to America, where he was met with exaltation and outrage

Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning

Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable but it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself

Open Thread

Meet the leader of the Department of Biology’s all-important “kitchen”

Is there life after death? The psychiatrist Ian Stevenson spent his life collecting evidence. What he found was suggestive, but unprovable

Why U.K. Socialism Could Soon Be America's Problem

Federal Court Strikes Down Immigration-Related Subpoenas of Minnesota Officials on Anti-Commandeering Grounds

The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother

Buying Beer Is Both Legal and Illegal on Sunday Nights in Minnesota

Is Europe Finally Taking Responsibility for Its Own Defense?

Looking back at “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”

Turning the Clock Back

Europe Cannot Afford Another Lost Year

Turn to Europe

Americans Still Believe in the Founding—and Want Schools To Teach Capitalism

What killed the masquerade ball: the rise of evangelical moral values or an increasing affordability, which rendered it less appealing to the aristocracy?

Dwight Macdonald opposed World War II, denounced the atom bomb, and never found an ideological home. Was he right?

A Supreme Court Decision Restricting Appeal Waivers Underlines the Injustice of Coercive Plea Bargaining

Weschler on Hockney