The Barbarians Are Inside

And There Are No Gates.

Baby Sloths on a Jungle Gym

The Death of Glucksmann

Remembering the French intellectual, a man of influential ideas.

Tomorrow

A Generation that Hates Free Speech

A Republic, if you can keep it.

In Search of the Zeitgeist

Exploring the dominant spirit of our times.

Is Great Philosophy, by its Nature, Difficult and Obscure?

Not mine.

Later That Same Life

This Man Made a Movie by Interviewing Himself 38 Years in the Future.

The Story Trap

Do stories really help us to understand the world?

The Future of the Humanities: Reading

As technology advances, doomsaying remains constant.

The Beauty and the Costs of Extreme Altruism

What if you were so troubled by suffering and inequality that you changed your life entirely?

Writers Shouldn’t Romanticize Rejection

In the literary world, talent isn’t hiding. It’s being ignored.

Bad News, Animal Lovers

SeaWorld Isn’t Really Ending Its Killer Whale Show.

Remembrance Day

Leonard Cohen reads ‘In Flanders Fields’

A Brief History of the Future of Reading

From page to screen to phone and back again.

Our Journeys are Short

So get up and help someone.

Trudeau’s Government was Just Thrown under the Wheels of Obama’s Self-regard

… and he’s disappointed?

Yale Students have Exercised their Right to be Treated like Children

I got in, but went to M.I.T. instead. Now it's different.

How to Draw a Novel

Tracing the shapes of the stories we tell.

The Cop at the End of the World

He patrols it alone.

Lost at Sea

The man who vanished for 14 months.

What Memoir Can do that Poetry Can't

 Finding memories buried in words.

Jenny Diski Interview

‘The mediocrity of fiction is really to do with feeling cosy.’

It Appears I have lost my Gift for Math

When I was at M.I.T., I inadvertently got in the express line of the local Stop 'n Shop supermarket with more items than I should have. The clerk didn't break a sweat.
"You're either from Harvard and can't count, or from M.I.T. and can't read."
My Stories of the Southern Sea author reading is this coming Saturday, November 14th, at 2 p.m. (if I remember how to get there).

Religious Children are Meaner than their Secular Counterparts

Who knew.

Sex, Death and Mushrooms

The forest air is sweet and winy with decay.

Need More Like Him

The Clock Ticks On

Steyn on the World.

30 Words And Phrases You Should Never Say

Le Dauphin

Justin Trudeau.

Diary of a First-time Book Tour

On the fine art of not f****** up your reading.

Four More Days

Until Stories of the Southern Sea.

Bad News for Terraforming

Mars's Atmosphere Is Lost in Space.

What’s Your Story?

The psychological power of narrative.

The World's Slowest Rube Goldberg Machine