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Our Lies Are Our Fondest Hopes–And Science Will Destroy Them (That’s a Good Thing!)
I never liked science. Numbers are boring. I never was this nerd guy, doing the math, imagining algorithms, checking things in a laboratory… I studied science only because ...
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Political Machines
I recently caught up with the teaching assistant for an undergraduate humanities course I took years ago, that helped inspire my subsequent studies. I told him that everything ...
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An Awesome Gap
Around the corner, the lot opened up and the asphalt smoothed out. The rough patches disappeared and Patrick glided along, gaining speed as he headed for a concrete ...
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The Asshole
He was not a very good person. He was, by many accounts, vile, impolite, crude, inappropriate, ignorant, insensitive, and offensive. He was a gifted asshole, a precocious prick, ...
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Ask Annie: How Do I Revise?
Anne Bernays has been a mainstay of Pangyrus since our launch–and a mainstay of fiction and non-fiction writing for decades. Co-author of What If?, one of the most enduring texts ...
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Learning Hungarian
Roza, my four-year-old daughter, is patient with me as I struggle to understand her. She doesn’t know it, but I’m in awe of the complexity of her sentences ...
Latest in Poetry
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Female Pattern Balding
The pursuit of beauty comes to this. Selecting a wig color that will best match your eyebrows. Code gender as a form of hypertext. Insert any parenthetical equation. ...
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This Gesture
Look what we have here: some books bought with a student’s savings, as if land purchased for a house that you might never build. Plato, Hegel, The Marxist ...
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Nil Nisi of the Dead
—variously attributed to Diogenes and Chilon 1. Nothing but good: that’s what I’ve always read. They never ...
Latest in Fiction
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An Awesome Gap
Around the corner, the lot opened up and the asphalt smoothed out. The rough patches disappeared and Patrick glided along, gaining speed as he headed for a concrete ...
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The Asshole
He was not a very good person. He was, by many accounts, vile, impolite, crude, inappropriate, ignorant, insensitive, and offensive. He was a gifted asshole, a precocious prick, ...
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Eyewitness
The eyewitness entered. He had no eyes. Unsteadily he made his way through the courtroom, groping the air with his hands. Blood ran from his eye-sockets, blood so ...
Latest in Ideas
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Learning Hungarian
Roza, my four-year-old daughter, is patient with me as I struggle to understand her. She doesn’t know it, but I’m in awe of the complexity of her sentences ...
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Answering Alternative Facts with Fiction
There is a sense, this week, with Trump’s shifting stories on his payout to Stormy Daniels, of a crescendo in the administration’s run of obvious falsehoods. What’s striking ...
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Shoveling Dirt On ritual and grief at a Jewish funeral
Paul is in a coma, said the person calling. The doctors think this is the end. His wife Jenni wants you to come. She wants everyone there around ...
