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Do Insects Feel Pain?

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One of the stranger effects of Brexit was that, after the United Kingdom left the European Union, in 2020, it no longer recognized animals as “sentient beings.” When the U.K. was…

Refinding James Baldwin

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Fame after death can kill again. The historian knows this; the biographer knows this. No longer here to shape their own image, familiar figures become unknown to us. So many privacies…

The Unstoppable Rise of the State Symbol

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story If your New Year’s resolution is to stop obsessively reading post-election analyses, then perhaps you would welcome another way of understanding these United States. What do Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina,…

The Empty Ambition of “The Brutalist”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Most filmmakers, like most people, have interesting things to say about what they’ve experienced and observed. But the definition of an epic is a subject that the author doesn’t know firsthand:…