A New Test for Free Expression

The AtlanticPaywalled.
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We are becoming participants in a vast philosophical experiment: Will Kant or Nietzsche be proven right?

The Yale ReviewHN20 min read
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Young J. G. Ballard and his family were imprisoned in a Japanese camp for a two and a half years — he called it the best time of his life

Los Angeles Review of BooksHN9 min read
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A poet and a theologian grope towards meaning by mail, trading letters about faith and friendship for two years

arcmag.org20 min read
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Colin Kidd: Realm of Coyness

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Skill nostalgia

AeonHNCovered by71 min read
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How a spelling quirk and a typesetter's blunder conspired to give us the word "weird"

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The French surrealists, stricken by serving in World War I, adopted a new philosophical approach: “vibrant pessimism”

Los Angeles Review of Books15 min read
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The Age of Reading Is Over

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‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind

The GuardianHNCovered by620 min read
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Naomi Kanakia has two questions about n+1: How did it used to publish so much consistently amazing work? Why did it get so much worse?

woman-of-letters.comHN15 min read
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On the Mark by Florence Hazrat review – a fascinating history of punctuation

The Guardian2 min read
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When The Machines Deserve Our Consideration

NOEMA10 min read
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The Stretch of a Soul

The Point Magazine10 min read
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Twain Town, U.S.A.

The American ScholarHN3 min read
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“My wonderful horseykins,” “my little sperm whale.” If Chekhov’s love life was epistolary, what are we to make of his fondness for brothels?

commonreader.wustl.eduHN15 min read
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Afternoon naps, long walks, and five hours of work a day. The lifestyles of great intellectuals reveal the value of spontaneous thought

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The Music of Destruction

The BafflerHN15 min read
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“Silly on top of silly.” To some sociologists, the field’s yearslong drift toward left-wing advocacy is self-defeating

The Chronicle of Higher EducationHN
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"Chekhov the ingenious hack and Chekhov the latter-day master are connected by way of Chekhov the neighborhood observer"

Literary Review4 min read
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