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Are we capable of that on a scale that will regenerate our political life? Perhaps not, at least for now, but we can take heart from the knowledge that, over the long course of human events, peoples have built cities that embodied high civic ends.

It's early December. The sun is setting about as early as it ever does. I don't know about you, but it's very nearly dark by the time I get home from work. It's been about a month since an election that shocked and saddened many people. Politically, things are happening exactly like we knew they wou...

What is it about being queer that makes loneliness, isolation, and rejection so much more intense than enduring than what our straight friends and family purport to experience? Are we just being sensitive, or egoistic? Do they perhaps feel these emotions with the same severity as we do, but are bett...

Staff at the Institution pick their favorite reads of the year, including riveting memoirs, fascinating true histories and fun fiction

A trans family saga set in a far-off, familiar future The post Read an Excerpt From Isaac Fellman’s <i>Notes From a Regicide</i> appeared first on Reactor.

Image: Max / HBO Alison Schapker sees Dune: Prophecy as a story about the ebb and flow of institutional power. Read the full story at The Verge.

The Olympic gold-winning British rower – and doctor – on simplicity, the state of British rivers and the tension between facts and opinions The post Life lessons: Imogen Grant on what life so far has taught her appeared first on Positive News.

After 10 hours of driving, I covered 700 more miles today, starting in Utah this morning, then across all of Wyoming, and finally into Nebraska in the evening. It took about 12 hours total after a couple stops for quick naps and food and gas along the way. Some photos

A few nuggets of wisdom from Andy Grove, in an interview with Esquire in 2007: Profits are the lifeblood of enterprise. Don’t let anyone tell you different. You must understand your mistakes. Study the hell out of them. You’re not going to have the chance of making the same mistake again — you can’t...

In 2013, a fan-art project on Tumblr enlisted 768 artists to redraw every page of Akira in the style of The Simpsons—and it got its own trailer, too.

Between this newsletter, my podcast, my books, and my New Yorker journalism, I offer a lot of advice and propose a lot of ideas about ... Read more The post The Tao of Cal appeared first on Cal Newport.

“I trust that posterity will read these statements with a feeling of proud and justified superiority.” This is how Albert Einstein signed off on his brief message to the people of the year 6939 AD, having already related to them that, despite the incredible progress made by people of his own era—“We...