- David Chalmers was wrong. There is no “hard problem” of consciousness, and the supposed “explanatory gap” it treats is nonsensical [20hr]
- "In the current climate where poet is activist (or vice-versa), the poems also start to look a lot like cant" [20hr]
- James Schuyler, the New York school's most neglected poet, may now be its most necessary [20hr]
- Despite his reputation as a as a conservative ogre, Harvey Mans?field’s latest book is immensely clever, subtle, and thought-provoking [50hr]
- Ibram X. Kendi’s “Great Replacement” theory encompasses so many disparate examples that it loses its explanatory power [50hr]
- Jonathan Swift’s last joke. His epitaph is, it turns out, an elaborate way of haunting an enemy from the grave [50hr]
- Dissidence is not a political stance, career, or personality type. It occurs when the distance between beliefs and actions becomes intolerable [71hr]
- “Of all the defects of American gerontocracy today, one of the worst is our failure to face mortality and embrace old age” [71hr]
- What happens when a Catholic, Oxford-trained mind intersects with a jaunty midcentury American voice? Wilfrid Sheed [71hr]
- Adapting Messiah for the screen is an odd midlife crisis. For Jack Kevorkian it made sense [95hr]
- The get through World War II, the novelist Wolfgang Koeppen faked his own death, hoarded tinned fish, and accumulated experience [95hr]
- Kimberlé Crenshaw, coiner of “intersectionality” and “critical race theory,” is genuinely puzzled by the controversy her ideas have aroused [95hr]
- Harvey Mansfield, Harvard's "annoying Socratic gadfly," spent decades championing lost causes. At 94, he's suddenly winning [168hr]
- AI anxiety predates AI. The fear that machine writing will replace human writing has a long history [168hr]
- You've seen crows picking at roadkill. Disgusting? Those birds are doing us a favor [168hr]