Fashionable Nonsense
April 14, 2025
The enterprise of behavioral science is rotten to the core.
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Kafka in Kurdish
April 11, 2025
Burhan Sönmez goes “home” to his native language.
Probably Oblivion
April 10, 2025
Each day brings a new opportunity for destruction.
Burn Down the House
April 08, 2025
MAGA’s plan to destroy American democracy.
The Orchestra Minion
Death is always a scandal.
Invisible Crisis
April 03, 2025
We are vastly undercounting the country’s homeless population.
The Way of All Flesh
April 02, 2025
While sifting through the constant bombardment of life, the brain builds meaning from what’s repeated.
Schumer’s Warning
March 31, 2025
Self-congratulation and willful ignorance in Chuck Schumer’s book on antisemitism.
The Limits of Rights
March 28, 2025
The term “human rights” doesn’t really do the work that we think it does.
Where the Vile Things Are
March 27, 2025
The slow-motion pillaging of Ukraine's largest nature reserve.
If You Should Fall
March 26, 2025
Do you care? Do you care that we were here?
Truth Is Never Finished
March 26, 2025
A new poem by Fady Joudah.