Well, it’s been awhile since I’ve done one of these but I’m gonna skip the apologies and get right into it. Here ...

This is a great piece from Jamelle Bouie on the likely death of the Voting Rights Act and, zooming out, the end of an era in Ameri ...

In this video, Maurice Moves highlights a pair of flashlights that are extremely useful & well-designed but also shockingly affo ...

Gorgeous New Covers for Nabokov by Na Kim Na Kim is one of the best book cover designers out there, and I love her set of covers for four of Vladimir Nabokov’s books being released in advance of the ...

1787: “Caroline Lucretia Herschel became the first woman to receive a salary as a scientist and hold a government position i ...

In a review of City of Angels, the 1998 Hollywood remake of Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders, Roger Ebert says: To compare the tw ...

The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US. “I did not write an ‘end of term’ Supreme Court review piece this year because… what’s the point? [Critiquing individual cases] feels like a guy on the Titanic ...

Always Stand on the Side of the Egg In 2009, novelist Haruki Murakami controversially accepted the Jerusalem prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society in the aftermath of Israeli military ...

Rebecca Solnit: The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology. “It is nothing less than astonishing and unbelievable that we have achieved so much progress in so little time.” ...

The End of America as a Center of Science Ross Anderson writes about how scientific empires, from the ancient Sumerians to the Nazis to the Soviet Union in the 1950s, have crumbled (or been willfully ...

How to Leave Substack. “Unfortunately, Substack willingly platforms, and allows bad actors to monetize, hate speech and misi ...