Lina Khan: Extraction Exterminator

From The American Prospect (TAP): In March, President Biden established a Strike Force on Unfair…

The Unknown Toll Of The AI Takeover

Lois Parshley at The Lever: In early May, Google announced it would be adding artificial…

The Scientific Origins of Racism

by Jacob Zellmer at Aeon: Imagine for a moment that tomorrow we find humans on…

Kings, Laws, and God

From Wisdom of Crowds: On July 1, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in the case…

Quotable Quote: ‘Wickedness’ and ‘Stupidity’

Shared by Ishaq Saqi, ISB: “Both wickedness and stupidity walk the street more confidently when…

Is Harvard Antisemitic?

Max Krupnick in Harvard Magazine: WHEN HAMAS TERRORISTS attacked Israel last October 7, they unleashed death and…

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at 200

Ted Olson in The Conversation: In early 1824, 30 members of Vienna’s music community sent…

Monday Poem: Ghazal For Grandmother

My grandmother kept a suitcase, hard & roundedlike a deep pink shell. I used to…

Breaking Free from the Cultural Neurosis

By Dr. Alexander Lowen at Poetic Outlaws: We want to be more alive and feel…

The Kennedys And The Women They Destroyed

Louis Bayard at The NY Times: In the opening sentence of her rage-swollen “Ask Not,”…

Majority Without a Mandate

Richard Seymour in Sidecar: Was ever a country, in this humour, won? A majority without…

Murder in Hollywood

In 1973, Cynthia Bouron, a notorious Hollywood hanger-on who alleged that Cary Grant fathered her…