3quarksdaily.comadded August 2026
3 Quarks Dailyby Mike O'Brien18d ago
by Mike O’Brien It takes me a long time to finish books. The last one I finished was published about a century ago, or four and a half centuries ago, depending on how you figure it.
3 Quarks Dailyby Azra Raza20d ago
Alex Lanz in LARB: “MR. BLOOM READ with relish the lustrous verses of Blake and Shelley,” I am tempted to write, since Harold Bloom, the author of The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry...
3 Quarks Dailyby David Hoyt20d ago
by David Hoyt In his recent book, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and Dreams of A World Without Democracy, historian Quinn Slobodian offers what might be the closest thing we have to an...
3 Quarks Dailyby John Ambrosio20d ago
by John Ambrosio In 2001, Grover Norquist, the Republican anti-tax crusader, famously quipped in an interview that he did not want to abolish government, “I simply want to reduce it to the size...
3 Quarks Dailyby Eric Schenck20d ago
by Eric Schenck Back in December of 2022, I was on top of the world. I was introducing my entire family to my girlfriend, and we were just weeks away from the trip of a lifetime: Driving our newly...
3 Quarks Dailyby Jim Culleny21d ago
The first known account of surfing was written during the 1640s in what is now Ghana. Surfing was independently developed from Senegal to Angola.
3 Quarks Dailyby Jochen Szangolies21d ago
by Jochen Szangolies Last Sunday, on the sixth of September, for the first time in more than 80 years, a far-right extremist party won the majority of votes in a German state election, and has a...
3 Quarks Dailyby Derek Neal21d ago
by Derek Neal I read Ben Lerner’s new novel, Transcription, in one day. I started reading it on my iPad at around 7:30 am as I sat at my kitchen table, sipping coffee and eating a piece of cake...
3 Quarks Dailyby Rachel Robison-Greene22d ago
by Rachel Robison-Greene A student came to my office last week to discuss her future. This student is extremely bright and creative, and I think the sky is the limit for her.
3 Quarks Dailyby Barry Goldman22d ago
by Barry Goldman Suppose Jones receives a communication from a Nigerian prince. The prince convinces Jones that if he provides access to his checking account, the prince will deposit $5 million...
3 Quarks Dailyby Malcolm Murray23d ago
by Malcolm Murray At this point in time, I would have expected to see more “AI religions”, or religious movements focused on AI. Why are there no churches of AI or scriptures of AI worship?
3 Quarks Dailyby Richard Farr23d ago
by Richard Farr The past few days, I’ve been unable to get away from the sense that perhaps there’s something wrong with me.
3 Quarks Dailyby Martin Butler24d ago
by Martin Butler Rootedness, says Simone Weil, …is perhaps the most important and least known human spiritual need. It is one of the hardest to define.
3 Quarks Dailyby River Lerner24d ago
A collage essay by River Lerner A dam and a corset share a certain poetry. The opposing forces along their walls grant function: not only to contain or boundary, but to harness difference.
3 Quarks Dailyby Robin Varghese25d ago
Yueran Zhang in Phenomenal World: In April 1989, a series of explosive pro-democracy movements erupted across China. These movements and their political fate remain poorly understood today.
3 Quarks Dailyby Robin Varghese25d ago
Wolfgang Streeck in Sidecar: What does it mean to say we are in a ‘polycrisis’? Under an increasingly undemocratic capitalism, the countries of the rich world all confront a similar bundle of...
3 Quarks Dailyby Jerry Cayford25d ago
by Jerry Cayford The wealth tax was reintroduced a few months ago. Sponsors of the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act are leading progressive Democrats Elizabeth Warren, Pramila Jayapal, and Brendan Boyle.
3 Quarks Dailyby Mark DeLong25d ago
by Mark R. DeLong A few years ago I shared a draft of a sonnet sequence with a poet from the Northwest I had followed for a while.
3 Quarks Dailyby Rafaël Newman27d ago
by Rafaël Newman Not quite 25 years ago, on September 15, 2001, I took my six-year-old daughter to the opera.
3 Quarks Dailyby Priya Malhotra27d ago
by Priya Malhotra Mira remembers her third birthday party as a scene of almost extravagant happiness.
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