Alan Watts on Transcending Yourself
The following is a brief segment of a lecture Alan Watts gave on The Psychedelic…
Why Medieval Philosophers Cared if Animals Made Mistakes
Sam Alma at Aeon Magazine: You are standing on a boat that is drifting down…
AI Hope or Hype?
From Project Syndicate: At the latest Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced that it is not…
Sabina Suey: The Valencian Postwoman Who Hid the Holy Grail in Her Sofa
When the Spanish Civil War broke out, everyone from Spanish revolutionaries to M.I.6 agents wanted…
Mary L. Trump: Why I’m Still With President Biden
The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump: It would be absurd to pretend that…
Phoon Phaan (Pomp & Grandeur)
Habib Khan, Quetta: I have been linked to Karachi for the last fifty years and…
Sunday Poem: ‘Oceans’ by Belle
An entire sea of waterCant sink a shipUnless the water gets insideYou sunk me.You got…
The Medieval World [Interactive Map]
by OUP History: The study of the Middle Ages is expanding. With new locales and…
For Trump, the Debate Was Another Chapter in the Rewriting of Jan. 6
By Jess Bidgood at The New York Times: About halfway through Thursday night’s presidential debate,…
Documenting ‘How to Rob a Bank’
Sonny Bunch at The Bulwark: On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Stephen Robert Morse…
How America Got Into This Omnishambles
Yascha Mounk at Persuasion: America is in deep, deep trouble. Before Thursday’s debate, the leading contender…
The Downsides of Rehashing Problems With Friends
by Shayla Love at Psyche: It’s Friday night. You’re sitting down to dinner with your…