Paul Glastris, Ed Kilgore and Martin Longman discuss why we’re on unprecedented turf when it comes to the 2016 elections. Plus: Do we need a mass movement on gun control?
Jonathan Phillips and Steven Frankland discuss the brain’s ability to generate infinite ideas from reusable parts.
Philosopher Massimo Pigliucci describes Stoic responses to suffering. Plus: Why when it comes to making moral decisions, relying on general rules just won’t work.
Mark Schmitt and Katherine Mangu-Ward discuss the cross-aisle coalitions forming around criminal justice reform and defense spending. Plus: How Congress is delving into space property rights.
Robert Wright and D.T. Max, author of the Wallace biography Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story, discuss “This Is Water,” the writer’s famous commencement address. Plus: Wallace and the double-edged sword of self-consciousness.
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis analyze her controversial statement about abortion. Plus: Will Boehner’s exit truly change anything?
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter criticize the rhetoric of the “mainstream black punditocracy.” Plus: Why Black Lives Matter needs a “second wing.”
Paul Glastris, Ed Kilgore, and Nancy LeTourneau consider. Plus: Against the canonization of Saint Boehner.
Daniel Strauss and Matt Fuller preview fights within the post-Boehner House leadership. Plus: The real reason Boehner is resigning.
Glenn Loury describes a period in the late ’80s when he was both a Harvard professor and addicted to crack cocaine. Plus: How Glenn lost his faith.