The Missing Story of the Drug War

Demand the release of Dr. José Manuel Mireles Valverde.

Millennials, You Literally Cannot Call Yourselves Adults

Until you take this pledge.

Nobel Laureates Who Were Not Always Noble

Racists, frauds, and misogynists: Meet the rogues’ gallery of Nobel Prize winners.

The Teachings of Don Carlos

Pulling back the curtain on Carlos Castaneda, one of America’s most secretive and popular authors.

We're About to Cause the Worst Coral Die-Off in History

A third global bleaching of coral reefs is underway following a massive and persistent underwater heat wave.

The Benefits of Getting Comfortable With Uncertainty

Wanting and not wanting the same thing at the same time is a baseline condition of human consciousness.

House of Q to Represent Canada at the Jack Daniel’s Invitational BBQ Championship

And we will be hanging out with, and helping the home team!

How Tom Wolfe Became …

Tom Wolfe.

Can World Literature Exist?

It depends on what is meant by world literature.

Death Destroys a Man; the Idea of Death Saves Him

The Black Mirror: Fragments of an Obituary for Life, Tallis’s strange, brilliant new book.

Death in the Clouds

Part 2, here.

Green Boots

She's in the new book, Stout Men.

Does America Still Want the American Dream?

Another giant mall.

Canadians for a Wall

Reactions from Canadians saying yeah, bring it on.

Many of the Alleged Rules of Writing are Actually Superstitions

Clarity and style are far more important than observing dusty usage diktats.

Intermental

Towards a classification of tech-induced mental disorders.

The Cello Music of the Spheres

Experience mathematical beauty and symmetry in a multimedia work.

Trans-Pacific Partnership to extend copyright to life + 70 years for all members

Works for me.

American Democracy is Doomed

America's constitutional democracy is going to collapse.

A Drunk Man's Assault on a Robot Raises Unusual Legal Issues

A robotics ethicist is calling for a new type of legal protection that would apply specifically to robots.

This Year's Nobel Prize in Literature- Svetlana Alexievich

Excerpt from Voices of Chernobyl.

2015 New Zealand Bird of the Year

Let the Countdown Begin!

A Critic’s Critic Quits His Day Job

George Scialabba is no wild man.

Putin Scores 7 Goals in Hockey Game on 63rd Birthday

And then I thought... who’s going to hip check Vladimir Putin?

‘Fire Beyond the Darkness’

The book I'm writing now.

Harvard Debating Team

Loses to Maximum Security Prisoners. Sweet.

I Did Wonder About This

After glass shatters, petrified tourists rush off transparent bridge over Chinese mountain valley.

Stories of the Southern Sea

Five Weeks.

Why Science Needs Metaphysics

Science can’t tell us whether science explains everything.

Trump as Your Drunk Neighbor

The Flight From Conversation

Replacing face-to-face communication with smartphones is diminishing people’s capacity for empathy.

The Map of Literature

Combines centuries of books and poems in one gorgeous illustration.

Afghan Hospital Bombing

MSF demands investigation under Geneva conventions.

Last Panther of the Ozarks

Having the equilibrium of a poet, I kept falling in love. 

Bolere flytter til Lilleputthammer for å virke større

Bodybuilders Go To This Tiny Town To Cheer Themselves Up When They're Feeling Sad. 

Obama: Nihilist or Just Incompetent?

Who knows; the only mystery left is how much damage will the last gasp of 2016 bring? 

Hail to the Pencil Pusher

American Bureaucracy's Long and Useful History.

The Age of Infection

Sifting through the muddy cache. 

Is the Wild West Dead?

Not in Wagon Days.

The Amazing Inner Lives of Animals

The potential to change our relationship with the natural world.

Opinions Discovering the Deep South’s Cliches All Over Again

I will do it better.

Rugby World Cup 2015: Samoa 5-26 Japan

What? 

Life Is a Braid in Spacetime

How to see yourself in a world where only math is real.