In Praise of the World Cup’s Little Guys

We are entering a world of extreme cognitive polarization. Some people will use AI to think more. Others will use AI to think less 

The U.S. Could Eventually Win a Men's World Cup—With Enough Immigration and Capitalism

Trump's World Cup Intervention Shows His Sore Loser Philosophy

The World Cup as It Should Be

Europe Must Face the World on Its Own

Religious rites, rock concerts, and other transcendent moments stem from directing our attention to “something more than human”

Hydrogen: clean fuel of the future — if we can find a cheap and clean way to ship it

America the Great

Open Thread

Trespassing

Where Kant and Rousseau theorized, George Forster sailed the world to learn what makes humans human

Why Balogun's World Cup Red Card Was Incorrect

The idea that success is deserved has great traction in the world but it is a deeply flawed notion

Three Essentials of a More Equal World Order

The Violinist Who Solved the Ancient Riddle of How the World Holds Together

The Nonsense World of Daniil Kharms

A Natural History of William Kentridge’s Studio

It Wasn’t Just the Founders

Vasily Grossman died believing that his masterpiece had been seized by the KGB and lost forever

Hit by a car, beset by family tragedy, diagnosed with cancer: William T. Vollmann may be dying, but he’s also just finished a 3,000 page opus