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Nov 6, 2025
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another depicts the desperate soul-searching of aging revolutionaries: Should we abandon the Cause and lead a normal life?...
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Oct 22, 2025
Two weeks ago, the economist Tyler Cowen joined us for a live taping of the Wisdom of Crowds podcast to discuss the future of American liberalism. Cowen being...
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Oct 1, 2025
After his friend Albert Camus died in a car crash, aged 46, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote: “Every life that is cut off — even the life of so young a man — is at one...
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Jul 23, 2025
How important is the freedom not to care — not to have to care — about being overheard? If you’re a parent (or even if you’re not one), when...
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May 28, 2025
A few weeks ago, Ross Douthat of the New York Times interviewed Daniel Kokotajlo, a former OpenAI employee who has become an AI safety whistleblower. After leaving the...
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May 26, 2025
In his memoirs, C. S. Lewis describes his happy place: “On a Saturday afternoon in winter, when nose and fingers might be pinched enough to give an added relish to the...
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May 22, 2025
The three decades following World War II were a time when poets could become famous, novelists could become rich, filmmakers could become Sophocles, and musicians could become gods....
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Apr 23, 2025
Writer, Nobel laureate, and sometime Peruvian presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa died last week at the age of eighty-nine. He was the last surviving member of the...
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Feb 27, 2025
There’s no reason why the name “Alfredo Stroessner” should mean anything to Americans today, which is why I was surprised to find him mentioned in Bronze Age...
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Jan 23, 2025
I enjoyed Christine’s send-up of Mark Zuckerberg’s recent makeover and censorship-apology tour. Zuck is a powerful guy who wants to ingratiate himself with the...
Nov 6, 2025Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another depicts the desperate soul-searching of aging revolutionaries: Should we abandon the Cause and lead a normal life?...
Oct 22, 2025Two weeks ago, the economist Tyler Cowen joined us for a live taping of the Wisdom of Crowds podcast to discuss the future of American liberalism. Cowen being...
Oct 1, 2025After his friend Albert Camus died in a car crash, aged 46, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote: “Every life that is cut off — even the life of so young a man — is at one...
Jul 23, 2025How important is the freedom not to care — not to have to care — about being overheard? If you’re a parent (or even if you’re not one), when...
May 26, 2025In his memoirs, C. S. Lewis describes his happy place: “On a Saturday afternoon in winter, when nose and fingers might be pinched enough to give an added relish to the...
May 22, 2025The three decades following World War II were a time when poets could become famous, novelists could become rich, filmmakers could become Sophocles, and musicians could become gods....
Apr 23, 2025Writer, Nobel laureate, and sometime Peruvian presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa died last week at the age of eighty-nine. He was the last surviving member of the...
Feb 27, 2025There’s no reason why the name “Alfredo Stroessner” should mean anything to Americans today, which is why I was surprised to find him mentioned in Bronze Age...
Jan 23, 2025I enjoyed Christine’s send-up of Mark Zuckerberg’s recent makeover and censorship-apology tour. Zuck is a powerful guy who wants to ingratiate himself with the...