Wondering why "everything feels divided and why it sucks constantly?" Blame the uni-context. Agnes Callard explains

With their mad methods and aesthetic gimmicks, William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin were, together, a brand: The Cut-Up Boys of the Interzone 

Ketamine, public cuddling, and prediction markets on just about everything pervade Manifest, a gathering of self-described “rationalists”

“The smartphone erodes freedom not because it invades our private space, but because it gives us the feel of a private world”

Saul Bellow peeked under Allan Bloom's kimono and called it a tribute. Was the betrayal worth it?

A poet and a theologian grope towards meaning by mail, trading letters about faith and friendship for two years