PsyBlogby Dr Jeremy Dean10 Jul 2026
People react far more strongly to social slights than they do to small acts of kindness. It is true that people ‘pass forward’ small kindnesses paid to themselves, but they also pass on small...
Psychology Blogby David Webb10 Jul 2026
By David Webb, Founder and Editor of All-About-Psychology.com While this table summarizes the key distinctions, the relationship between personality and character has been debated by philosophers...
Himal Southasianby Abhishek Avtans10 Jul 2026
SOUTHASIAN LANGUAGES are no strangers to swear words. Swearing, or the use of offensive, “dirty” or indecent language, is a universal linguistic behaviour exhibited to navigate social taboos...
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans9 Jul 2026
Ways to think about token pricing There are only two things you can say with certainty about token prices: we’re in a supply crunch, and this is unstable.
Farnam Streetby Shane Parrish9 Jul 2026
A brief, no-fluff, summary of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. If you want to learn how capitalist countries become socialist, this book will help you. Let’s dive in.
The Marshall Projectby Daniella Zalcman9 Jul 2026
I spent last summer scouring the South for the products of prison labor in a strange scavenger hunt across small-town America. A freshman’s dorm mattress at Mississippi State University.
Public Domain Reviewby Arnoud S Q Visser8 Jul 2026
Pompous know-it-alls were once a mainstay of mockery on the Italian stage. Arnoud Visser investigates this stock character of the pedant and his association with individual superiority, social...
Public Domain Reviewby Erica X Eisen8 Jul 2026
“This magazine . . . does not represent a group. It represents, rather, a movement, a spirit” — or perhaps a “specter”?
Making Sense Of Centsby Michelle Schroeder-Gardner8 Jul 2026
Today, I have a great guest post from Janeen Blake of Love. Eat. Travel. Repeat on how she retired from corporate life at 42 and moved with her family to Portugal. Here’s Janeen’s story.
Public Domain Reviewby Ross MacFarlane7 Jul 2026
George Eliot’s Middlemarch is famed for its well-rounded characters, yet the unfortunate Edward Casaubon, a pedantic clergyman more devoted to his research than his intelligent wife Dorothea...
The Diversity of Classic Rockby angiemoonthemod6 Jul 2026
Recently I reviewed John Richardson’s autobiography The Rod and The Rose (you can buy a copy on Amazon).
The Marshall Projectby Jamiles Lartey4 Jul 2026
This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Sign up for future newsletters.
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine4 Jul 2026
As the United States of America celebrates its 250th birthday today, here Avery Scott considers how the story of the declaration of independence is a microcosm of the American experiment itself.
UX Daily - User Experience Daily4 Jul 2026
You might still wonder why it’s a good idea to spend your valuable time thinking about bad ideas?
Asterisk Magazineby Elizabeth Van Nostrand1 Jul 2026
Help Wanted: Someone to be everyone’s friend (but don’t expect reciprocity) (and don’t think of yourself as special). Ability to provide therapy a plus.
Asterisk Magazineby Kevin Munger1 Jul 2026
The received wisdom among a certain class of Bay Area/rationalist/AI-pilled thinkers is that universities are a hopelessly broken epistemic technology, especially now that AI is widespread.
Scott H Youngby Scott Young30 Jun 2026
A major theme in my work is trying to find ways to learn more effectively—how do we gain skill or knowledge with less wasted time and effort?
Public Domain Reviewby Mathilde Montpetit30 Jun 2026
If you were a nineteenth-century merchant bringing diamonds from the Kollur Mine near Bezawada (now Vijayawada) to Golconda (now Hyderabad), going northwest along the Krishna River, your best bet...
A List Apartby by Shrey Shah30 Jun 2026
Every language app in your pocket inherited a teaching method built for Latin. Understanding why that happened is a more useful design lesson than anything the apps themselves will teach you.
Narrativelyby Heather K.M. Lewis26 Jun 2026
From the get-go, when we were going through the 2025 Memoir Prize entries, Heather K.M. Lewis’ essay stuck out.
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