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Daniel Kahneman, and More
Daniel Kahneman, who marveled at “endlessly complicated” human psychology, is dead. He was 90... NYT... Daniel Engber... more » By the 19th century…
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Caravaggio’s Crimes, Easter Island, and More
Caravaggio’s final crimes: carrying a sword without a permit, smearing excrement on a house, smashing a plate of artichokes in the face of a waiter…
Mar 27
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Paradoxes, Shakespeare, and More
Joseph Epstein, with scores to settle, wrote a memoir. Why was he fired as editor of The American Scholar?... more » “Can God create a stone so heavy…
Mar 26
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Marjorie Perloff, and More
The physical world is full of inefficiencies. Cue the “digital twin,” where they can be ironed out virtually then reflected back into reality... more »…
Mar 25
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Marilynne Robinson, Monsters, and More
Marilynne Robinson: “I consider the Bible to be the most complex document on the planet”... more » Cities have become frictionless, optimized sites of…
Mar 22
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Frans de Waal, Cultural Stagnation, and More
Does “coming out of the closet” turn gay men into oppressors of the more marginalized? Queer theory seems to think so... more » In 1959, Sonny Rollins…
Mar 21
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MBAisms, Shakespeare's 'Sisters,' and More
The publishing industry is notoriously sleepy. But here come the Silicon-Valley inflected CEOs spouting MBAisms.
Mar 20
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Whither the 'Litblog'?, and More
Blogs were once at the center of the online cultural ecosystem.
Mar 19
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The Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle, and More
Wicked baronets and disastrous marriages — the “sensation novels” of the 1860s updated Gothic elements for Victorian sensibilities... more » The…
Mar 18
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A Room Temperature Superconductor?, and More
In 2020, a star physicist claimed an incredible advance. Was it too good to be true?
Mar 16
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Medieval Amulets, Bad Tech Books, and More
Wonders emerge in the ocean’s deepest trenches: corals, crustaceans, a multitude of bizarre fish. Also: nuclear waste and tins of Spam... more »…
Mar 14
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Antinatalism, Keith Haring, and More
What can a generation of deeply religious thinkers in a moment of disenchantment teach modern humanists? Everything... more » If Keith Haring’s most…
Mar 13
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