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Charles Taylor

Adam Kirsch
In Search of Fullness

In his new book, the philosopher Charles Taylor looks at modern poetry as a unique record of spiritual experience in a secular age.

 
 
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Les Gens de Justice; illustration by Honoré Daumier

Walter M. Shaub Jr.
‘Acts of Submission’

An open letter to the director of the Office of Government Ethics.

 
A portion of the border wall in Arizona

S. C. Cornell
Death in Nogales

An unarmed Mexican migrant was shot dead on an Arizona ranch. The response revealed widespread support for violence at the border.

 
 
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James Gleick
Bad Readers

AI chatbots have been trained on trillions of words—but all in the service of plausibility over truth.

 

Scuttle

a poem by
Dean Browne

I’m somewhere I shouldn’t be.
Eight, allergic to dust,
asthmatic, stigmatic
with mystery rashes,
balanced tiptoe on a stack
of peat briquettes...

 
 
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