Do not let politics derange you, and do not let people derange you in the name of politics. Murder is wrong. It just is. Charlie Kirk was a person, a real person, with a family and kids.

We don't know how good we have it, in historical terms. That means both that we're closer to a better country than we feel, and also that things could get worse than we appreciate.

I know this guy is a Republican and all but I swear you could win all the electoral votes with this message in 28.

These are noise triggers.

i dont think its an accident by the way that the only like genuinely effective political actor in OBAA is Sensei, who, rather than living some kind of pseudo-revolutionary lifestyle on the bleeding edge of society, is entrenched in a community of mutual solidarity.

I loved Souvankham Thammavongsa's "Pick a Color," a short, searing novel that punches above its weight. Out today from Little, Brown and Co. Here's my review for The Washington Post: washingtonpost.com/books/2025/09/…

This was great (thanks to Jack El-Hai for the tip): lithub.com/are-we-enterin…

For The Ringer, Manuela Lazić and I wrote about Kelly Reichardt's CERTAIN WOMEN -- the latest instalment of our 21st Century Cinema series theringer.com/2025/10/03/mov…

He’s running. indystar.com/story/opinion/…

This is outrageous. This should offend everyone, left, right and center…. Please remove me from your fundraising rolls Indiana University - we’re done here.

theorized the earthen works were formed by a passing glacier or even the lost city of Atlantis. Most of the mounds were bulldozed 4 development. After 17 years, Osage Nation has acquired 1 of the remaining mound sites a short drive from the St Louis Arch. kosu.org/race-culture/2…

Great, smart review by Adelle Waldman in the NYT today!! “Somers’s crisp writing makes for a humane, frequently funny and very readable novel that captures something not just about how we live now, but about choices, compromises, sacrifice, being a parent, getting older.”

My conversation with Brandon for Commonweal Magazine

Don't look away. Atul Gawande on "public man-made death." newyorker.com/culture/the-ne…