I don't think I've ever directly hawked a product on this blog before (other than maybe some recommendation asides), but this is imp...

Did you hear that Connecticut abolished the death penalty? The state's practically next door, but somehow I missed this news when it ha...

I've frequently gotten mad at knee-jerk liberal reactions against capitalism since the most recent economic crisis. The obvious flaws in...

I recently read The Chairs are Where the People Go , which is a fun collection of essays by Misha Glouberman, with Sheila Heti. The book is ...

Last month I read Steven Pinker's latest book, the ambitious 700-page The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined , and i...

Take a look at this great ad from Image Comics, one in a series featuring quotes from their creators. This one shows writer/artist Natalie N...

Great article in The New Yorker about America's gun culture, and almost in passing it mentions some superb statistics:  The bad news ...