Edward Goreyâs macabre art is enigmatic, allusive, silly, somber, and haunted by the miseries of childhood
Edward Goreyâs macabre art is enigmatic, allusive, silly, somber, and haunted by the miseries of childhood
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Anthony Appiah: âI donât think encouraging people to resent everything they think is a moral mistake made by everybody else is a good way to prepare yourself for a happy lifeâ
Anthony Appiah: âI donât think encouraging people to resent everything they think is a moral mistake made by everybody else is a good way to prepare yourself for a happy lifeâ
Luigi Pirandello is a half-forgotten castaway of European letters. Are we living in his world?
Luigi Pirandello is a half-forgotten castaway of European letters. Are we living in his world?
"The Trump administration's vision for the United States is one of a...
âThe Trump administrationâs vision for the United States is one of a white Christian nation. And the path to accomplish it is through the exclusion and removal of all who do not fit that vision â in o
New Discoveries in the Archaeology of the Ancient Americas
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Why Is Ice Slippery? A New Hypothesis
Paulina RowiĆska at Quanta: The reason we can gracefully glide on an ice-skating rink or clumsily slip on an icy sidewalk is that the surface of ice is coated by a thin watery layer. Scientists genera
A roundup of the words/phrases of the year for 2025, including "rage...
A roundup of the words/phrases of the year for 2025, including ârage baitâ, âvibe codingâ, âMar-a-Lago faceâ, âchaosâ, âperformative maleâ, and âKavanaugh stopâ. đŹ Join
Google DeepMind robotics lab tour with Hannah Fry
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Lessons of the Masters
Lyndall Gordon at The Hudson Review: If youâre eccentric, youâre all right.â This is how Humphrey Carpenter, biographer of W. H. Auden, Ezra Pound and Benjamin Britten, explained the British character
How Tax Havens Undermine the Rule of Law by Providing the Rule of Law
Nikhil Kalyanpur at The Price of Power: Historically, economic elites pushed for stronger courts, better property rights, and even elections. There was an underlying logic: elites are fundamentally af
The Tune of Things
Christian Wiman at Harperâs Magazine: A 1980 case study from England depicts a young man with an IQ of 126, excellent performance in his university classes, normal social skills, and basically no brai
Born Poor
Born Poor (PBS/Frontline) is a documentary filmed across 14 years about three kids in the US as they grow into young adults while âdealing with an economy where they face more obstacles than opportuni
Book Club: Beowulf (Session 1)
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Is it viable to self-publish your short fiction?
Alexander Chee is a well-regarded literary author who posted recently about the importance of submitting your stories to literary journals. He wrote:
Khan in the Dark
Peter Bach in CounterPunch: The persistent rumours that imprisoned Pakistani politician Imran Khan is dead have been crackling away like Lahore firecrackers these past few weeks. They feel less like r
AI Chatbots Choose Friends Just Like Humans Do
Edd Gent in Singularity Hub: As AI wheedles its way into our lives, how it behaves socially is becoming a pressing question. A new study suggests AI models build social networks in much the same way a
Tuesday Poem
Le Chien I remember late one night in Paris speaking at length to a dog in English about the future of American culture. No wonder she kept cocking her head as I went on about âsummer moviesâ and the
Are You 729 Times Happier than Donald Trump?
by Scott Samuelson When I turned fifty, I went through the usual crisis of facing that my life wasâso to speakâmore than half drunk. After moping a while, one of the more productive things I started t
The Cleaning Crew Part I: After Death
by Thomas Fernandes In the natural world, predation may mark the end of life, but it doesnât signal the end of ecological interactions. The hunt, with all its challenges and shifting interactions, is
Perceptions
Sughra Raza. First Snow. Dec 14, 2025. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
In Memory of Rob Reiner
Four movies that are part of who I am...
The Rules of Grief
The post-Kirk purge was never about decency. Trump's response to Rob Reiner's murder proves it.
America Is an Unserious Country Filled With Unserious People. "We'll tolerate this...
America Is an Unserious Country Filled With Unserious People. âWeâll tolerate this just like we tolerate everything else. Because this is who we are, collectively, as a country.â
The Right Is Wrong About College
The Rightâs War on College Is a War on Its Own Intellectual Inheritance
In Malaysia, Muslim Trans Women Find Their Own Paths
GrĂ©ta TĂmea BirĂł at Sapiens: Dora and I walked through the quiet nighttime streets of Chow Kit, a downtown neighborhood in Kuala Lumpur. [1] Pungent food smells mingled with the sweet scent of fruit a
'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens....
âNo Way To Prevent This,â Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.
The Best Online Articles of 2025
My favorite longform writing of the year
The DoppelgÀnger who wants a DoppelgÀnger
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad at Digital Dopplegangers: Most current digital doppelgÀngers, for all practical purposes, are automatons i.e., their behavior is relatively fixed with relatively well defined
Creativity in Science â Ernest Nagel (1968)
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Roots of Resilience: The Women Preserving Asiaâs Ancient Mangrove Forest
Straddling the border between India and Bangladesh, where the rivers Ganges, Meghna and Brahmaputra converge and flow into the Bay of Bengal, an ancient forest of mangroves stretches over 3,860 square
Paul Giamatti & Stephen Asma talk about Writing, Acting, and the Untamed Imagination
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The âSatiric, Terrifyingâ Legacy Of Poet Weldon Kees
Dana Gioia at The Book Haven: I first discovered the poetry of Weldon Kees in 1976âfifty years agoâwhile working a summer job in Minneapolis. I came across a selection of his poems in a library anthol
China leads research in 90% of crucial technologies â a dramatic shift this century
Xiaoying You in Nature: The ASPIâs Critical Technology Tracker evaluated high-quality research on 74 current and emerging technologies this year, up from the 64 technologies it analysed last year. Chi
A haunting Chinese noir thriller, an ambling heist movie with the year's best ending, and more
Roundup 12/15/2025
Frank Gehry: The Liberator
Martin Filler at the NYRB: The great liberator of late-twentieth-century architecture, Gehry was a latter-day Alexander who sliced through the Gordian Knot formed by an exhausted Modernism intertwined
People Look at Art or Art Looks at People
My favorite photos from museums contain folks for scale and context. Anton Repponen shares a collection of such images and theyâre delightful. (His name sounded familiar and now I recall enjoying his
John Carey: the Common Readerâs Professor
The affectionate obsession of a great critic
Alan Sepinwall wrote a lovely remembrance of Rob Reiner and his career....
Alan Sepinwall wrote a lovely remembrance of Rob Reiner and his career. âA legend. No doubt about it.â Reiner and his wife Michele Singer were found dead at their home in LA yesterday. Which Reiner mo
The Root Causes of Senseless Violence
Ivana Hughes in Common Dreams: I write this from the front of a Columbia classroom in which about 60 first-year college students are taking the final exam for Frontiers of Science. Yes, itâs a Sunday,
Youâre Probably Not Addicted to Social Media
Kristen French in Nautilus: Social media can be tough to ignore these days. There is so much of it, and itâs so accessible, right there glowing on the phones in our pockets and purses. Many of us find
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