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On Sunday night, Americans had two options for the Super Bowl halftime show. The official NFL show was headlined by Puerto Rican artist... Read More

Lillian, a senior at the University of Virginia, is taking a step that has scandalized her parents, peers, and professors. It has nothing to... Read More

There is an idea, promulgated notably in Derek Thompson’s 2019 Atlantic article “Workism Is Making Americans... Read More

Surely you’re aware that Valentine’s Day is four days away. I love Valentine’s Day. Yes, sure, it is a commercialization... Read More

If God had a personality, what would it be like? The two most obvious answers—God is benevolent and merciful; God is wrathful and... Read More

The 2026 Winter Olympics have arrived in Milano-Cortina with the usual pomp: flags, anthems, flashy choreography, and the insistence that,... Read More

“The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and... Read More

IN 1999, AT THE AGE OF FORTY-THREE, ANTHONY BOURDAIN had all but given up hope that he would ever be recognized as a major talent in... Read More

Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings, did not have two separate heads, but rather was two faces bound together into one divine... Read More

SEOUL — The Washington Post shut down its news operation here, where I’ve been working as an assignment editor for the... Read More

Photos of George and Amal Clooney in Milan this past weekend cascaded across social media and celebrity news sites. They looked elegant... Read More

It was summer 2021, and my mother’s desk was a mess, including a torn envelope from the IRS shoved in the back of a... Read More

George Saunders’s luminous new novella Vigil begins with a fall of a kind – lower-key, sinless and very funny:... Read More

“Never double-text. Girls don’t like that now,” my friend explained to me. Read More

I grew up in a family where the practice of going to confession was actively discouraged. At liturgy with my Greek grandma, the priest... Read More

Until 2025, the name “Alexandre Kojève” was a paradox. A philosopher often invoked yet rarely read – a famous... Read More

My feet are bare and so are my companions’. We are walking over cool deep-pile carpet and what feels like rough forest floor as we... Read More

America’s story is true myth. For 250 years, we have attacked the earth, sky, sea, and space, not to conquer or control but to improve... Read More

As the dominant economic and social force of our time, a handful of Silicon Valley-based companies shape our politics more than we’d... Read More

We are all beneficiaries of the Enlightenment. Nevertheless, it is also true that this world-changing political and philosophic movement has... Read More

It’s a feeling moviegoers don’t experience much anymore: that rush upon walking out of a theater and feeling... Read More

In 1869, a group of Massachusetts reformers persuaded the state to try a simple idea: counting. The Second Industrial Revolution was... Read More

Ren Duka is a fictional writer and the narrator of the fictional Ren Duka novels, an autofictive cycle recounting Duka’s adventures in,... Read More