Monday Poem: Morning of Drunkenness
O my good! O my beautiful!Atrocious fanfare where I won’t stumble!enchanted rack whereon I am…
Inside Project 2025
James Goodwin in the Boston Review: The week after taking office in 2017, Donald Trump…
If Energy Becomes Free in the Future, How Will That Affect Our Lives?
By Vanessa Bates Ramirez at Singularity Hub: Things we used to have to pay a…
Great Thinkers and Their Clutter
Samira Ahmed in New Humanist: There is a painting of the late Peter Higgs, the Nobel…
One Memorable Speech Can Turn Around a Faltering Campaign − How Nixon Did it With His ‘Checkers’ Talk
W. Joseph Campbell at The Conversation: Twenty years before Watergate, then-Sen. Richard Nixon’s national political…
Can a Word have an Existential Crisis?
By Edwin L. Battistella at OUP: A while back, a philosopher friend of mine was…
80 Bicycles and the Poor Clerk
by Habib Khan, Quetta: Within the first couple of years of my joining the Cadbury’s…
Sunday Poem: Hundred Flowers Blossom
I went to the woodsbirds talked with musictheir marriagesand a tree laceratedits trunk, offered me…
Are We Living in ‘Late Soviet America’?
From The Free Press: A few weeks ago, fresh from being knighted by King Charles,…
Tackling the Riddle of Free Will
Emily Cataneo in Undark: IT’S 1922. You’re a scientist presented with a hundred youths who, you’re told,…
Frida Kahlo’s Painting ‘The Wounded Table’ Vanished in 1955. The Hunt For it Continues.
by Paulina Olszanka at Air Mail: During her divorce from the artist Diego Rivera, Frida…