The Disenchantment of Baseball
The strike zone is not reducible to the simple rectangle displayed on TV broadcasts.
Murder in the Posthuman Age
by
Julia Friedman
and
David Hawkes
Posted on September 24, 2025
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration/Shutterstock.
Six centuries after Gutenberg, the Internet has had a malignant effect on the public mind.
My Lai Memorial
Posted on September 17, 2025
in THR Web Features
Image: Wikimedia Commons via IMS Vintage Photos
We hold two apparently contradictory beliefs about war.
The Good Apprentice
Real independence of mind can be won only by a sustained process of submission to authority.
AI Isn't Biased Enough
AI sycophancy is calibrated to satisfy a desire that no GLP-1 can moderate.
The Man Who Killed God
by
Ed Simon
Posted on August 25, 2025
in THR Web Features
Image: Die Wilde Jagd (The Wild Hunt), c. 1889, by Franz von Stuck (1863–1928), Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany; public domain, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
More than even a poet, Nietzsche was a prophet—a jaundiced, nihilistic, and cracked prophet, but a prophet nonetheless.
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