Culture

Don’t Doomscroll. Garden

Getting close to nature reveals the true meaning of abundance.

May 14 •

Yes, Harvard Deserves Due Process

Why imposing an orthodoxy to break an orthodoxy is just... orthodoxy.

May 9 •

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AI is remaking us in its own image. Students are on the front lines.

May 7 •

Why It’s So Hard To Find Small Press Books

And what you can do about it.

May 6 •

Melanie Jennings

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Elizabeth Kaye Cook

Enshittification

The culture war nobody's talking about.

May 5 •

William A. Finnegan

The Blogger Who Hates America

Curtis Yarvin’s popularity keeps growing. His intellectual rigor, not so much.

May 2 •

Bill Maher's Complicated Dinner

There are better ways to bridge our political divide than getting buttered up by Trump.

Apr 29 •

My ChatGPT Teacher

Do believe the hype.

Apr 25 •

Francis Fukuyama

Discourse on Race Has a Conformity Problem

The social sciences have to embrace the counterintuitive.

Apr 24 •

A Good Man in a Strongman’s World

Pope Francis had flaws. His emphasis on compassion wasn’t one of them.

Apr 22 •

Jeffery Tyler Syck

10 Observations About Kyrgyzstan

Where Islam meets the West meets… Soviet nostalgia.

Apr 20 •

The Third Humbling of Humanity

What will be left of our self-conception once artificial intelligence becomes better than us at writing poems or making movies?

Apr 17 •

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