For a very long time, I dreamed of being cured. I was born in 1981. I learned to walk early enough, but I stumbled and fell more easily than other children. My parents began to worry that something wa...
10.27.2026 theguardian.com , aol.co.uk
In this in-between moment, after everything and before whatever comes next, political theorist Wendy Brown focuses on the fundamental questions. She speaks about the significance of the upcoming elect...
11.01.2026 Elpais.com
Hervé Guibert’s ultimately unclassifiable talent brilliantly evokes the shadows, the moments of dread and paranoia, that are part of the experience of love. Doom lurks everywhere in Guibert’s world, i...
10.27.2026 Newyorker.com
The opening pages of the graphic novel The Donkey Rider by visual artist Rai (Amrita Barua) aren’t narrated by either of the two main characters—Ghurbat, a prisoner on death row, and law student Huma,...
11.01.2026 Livemint.com
The philosopher Michel Foucault argued that language does not neutrally describe reality, but instead actively shapes it. A recent scientific study analyzing political language seems to support his thesis. It shows that subtle choices in our wording massively impact the partisan bias in conversations about a wide range of sensitive political issues. it all comes down to a single word that refers to how much a group of people is perceived as cohesive and real — entitativity. "Research on novel gr...
11.01.2026 Alternet.org
Greg Lukianoff has spent 26 years defending speech on American campuses. So when he names the single most important free-speech fight of the next two decades, it is worth noticing that it has nothing ...
10.28.2026 Biggo.com
Friday Memories of Books That Shook My World As tomorrow is Halloween, I share one of my most frightening encounters with a horror story. Although I was a teenager when I first read Edgar Allan Poe’s ...
10.29.2026 Betterlivingthroughbeowulf.com
In this Trip episode, Jem, Nadia and Keir place their weird-left lens over the concept of confidence. Is positive thinking the key to success? Do confident people feel like imposters on the inside? Ho...
11.01.2026 Novaramedia.com
Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques: pour servir a l’étude du “portrait parlé” (1909)| Alphonse Bertillon / The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Public Domain When US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth...
10.30.2026 Publicseminar.org
I think all writers, especially those writing about politics, have been guilty of getting their facts wrong at times, not on purpose, mind you, but in their eagerness to make their point. This one stuck out like the proverbial you-know-what. The writ...
10.27.2026 Theamericanconservative.com
