Essay When folk horror goes beautiful: You Won鈥檛 Be Alone (2022) May 18, 2026 This is a folk horror witch film about severe, abject child abuse. And as we鈥檒l also see, it鈥檚 about resistance to that kind of abuse, and the desire to find meaning and beauty in life, even with the knowledge that horrific, monstrous evil exists. Read More
Essay The night humans learned to sleep together May 15, 2026 Humans became one of the most successful species on Earth while doing something especially odd: we appear to sleep less than we should. Like鈥 lot less. Read More
Podcast Listen in: The 5 Questions for Ethical Decisions May 14, 2026 The 5 Questions for Ethical Decisions: How to Succeed Without Selling Your Soul by David W. Miller is a practical guide for professionals, corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and college students who want to achieve personal success without compromising their morals. Read More
Podcast Listen in: What鈥檚 on Her Mind May 14, 2026 Mothers and fathers use their time differently, with women spending roughly twice as many hours on family labor as men. But what about the gendered differences in the ways women and men think? Read More
Essay Bones and All (2022), or, When Horror Goes Beautiful II May 14, 2026 Something must have been in the air in 2022. In the same year that You Won鈥檛 be Alone聽came keening gloriously out of Macedonia, Bones and All聽loped its achingly beautiful way out of Hollywood. Film essay by Eleanor Johnson, whose book Monstrous Bitch is forthcoming. Read More
Essay You can鈥檛 bowl with a chatbot May 12, 2026 Vehement negative reactions to people befriending, dating, or even marrying AI chatbots are everywhere. Why is that? Read More
Podcast The Case Against Education May 11, 2026 We鈥檙e continuing our series on philosopher Harry Frankfurt鈥檚 seminal work, On Bullshit. Our discussion with Bryan Caplan is on education and bullshit, with a special focus on his book, The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money. Read More
Podcast Man Up May 11, 2026 Man Up tells the revelatory and urgent story of how an explosion of misogyny is driving a surge of mass and far-right violence throughout the West鈥攆rom an internationally recognized extremism expert and media commentator. Read More
Podcast Furious Minds May 04, 2026 Furious Minds tells the story of the thinkers of the New Right鈥攁nd their powerful assault on American freedoms, values, and ideals. Read More
Interview Helen Pearson on Beyond Belief April 30, 2026 Helen Pearson tells the story of the evidence revolution鈥攁 worldwide movement that promotes evidence-based thinking鈥攁nd shows how it can help us all, especially in an age of alternative facts. Read More
Interview Steven Nadler on Spinoza, Atheist April 30, 2026 How could a person whose books are suffused with talk of God be an atheist? Steven Nadler, one of the world鈥檚 leading authorities on the philosopher, aims to settle the question and show that that鈥檚 exactly what he was. Read More
Podcast Africa鈥檚 Buildings April 29, 2026 Africa鈥檚 Buildings uncovers the vast scale of cultural displacement perpetrated by the West and proposes a new role for museums in this history, one in which they champion the repatriation of Africa鈥檚 architectural heritage and restitution for African communities. Read More
The Bollingen Series then and now April 29, 2026 The Bollingen Series, a collection of 275 volumes with the聽Collected Works of聽C.G.聽Jung聽as its centerpiece, has been published by聽快色直播 since 1969. Read More
Podcast The Light Between Apple Trees April 27, 2026 Priyanka Kumar takes us on a dazzling and transformative journey to rediscover apples, unearthing a rich and complex history while illuminating how we can reimagine our relationship with nature. Read More
Interview Roland Betancourt on Disneyland and the Rise of Automation April 23, 2026 Roland Betancourt traces how Disneyland became a proving ground for automation at the very moment the American public was most anxious about its consequences. Read More
