At the Heart of Don Quixote
All the adventures were tests, but not of the Don’s courage. Rather, they were tests of friendship, pure and simple.
The Amoeba and the Mathematician
By over-specializing, professionals have unwittingly shrunk their job duties to fit inside a machine’s scope of practice.
Simone Weil Against Distraction
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April Owens
Posted on October 22, 2025
Image: THR illustration: Simone Weil, Ewa Klos, Agence Opale/Alamy; background: Shutterstock.
For Simone Weil, attention was akin to prayer.
Chatbots and the Divine
We get nowhere near knowing, much less loving, another person through impersonal means.
Liberal Society Isn’t for Everyone
Our society needs a certain kind of person and our society shapes a certain kind of person. How to align the two?
The Disenchantment of Baseball
The strike zone is not reducible to the simple rectangle displayed on TV broadcasts.
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