• Technology

    Parenthood

    How To Raise a Reader in an Age of Digital Distraction

    Jessica Ewing on the Ways Parents Can Promote Thoughtful Technology Use and Sustainable Reading Habits

     
    By Jessica Ewing  September 15, 2025
    The Hub

    Why you should get (back) into RSS curation.

    By James Folta  September 10, 2025
    The Hub

    Everything you need to know about the Powell’s AI slop snafu—and what we can all learn from it.

    By Brittany Allen  September 9, 2025
    Travel

    How Ms. Rachel is using her platform to school American grown-ups.

    By Brittany Allen  September 5, 2025
    Travel

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  September 5, 2025
    AI

    Why AI Narrators Will Never Be Able to Tell a Real Human Story

    By Adam Verner  September 3, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Travel

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  August 29, 2025
    Education

    In Praise of CliffsNotes Study Guides in the Age of AI

    By Joelle Renstrom  August 28, 2025
    The Internet

    On the Cyber Soldiers Defending the Cuban Revolution From Internet Slander

    By Abraham Jiménez Enoa  August 28, 2025
    On Technology

    The Future (and Past) is Human (and Machine)

    Alan Lightman and Martin Rees Explore How Science and Technology Have Shaped Our World—And What Comes Next

    By Alan Lightman  September 12, 2025
    Travel

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  August 22, 2025
    Literary Trends

    Desperately Seeking Bygone Media

    By Ginny Hogan  August 22, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  August 15, 2025
    Mathematics

    Ruled by Numbers: How Data Dominates Every Facet of Our Daily Lives

    Noah Giansiracusa on the Processes That Quantify Our Existence and the Steps We Can Take to Reclaim Our Humanity

    By Noah Giansiracusa  August 12, 2025
    Literary History

    On “Mocha Dick,” the White Whale of the Pacific that Influenced Herman Melville

    By Tim Queeney  August 12, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s everything that made us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  August 8, 2025
    A.I.

    What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom

    By Piers Gelly  July 28, 2025
    Politics

    Truth Optional: How Digital Platforms Replaced the Press and Democracy Took the Hit

    Aron Solomon Unpacks the Unexpected—and Ongoing—Consequences of Section 230

    By Aron Solomon  July 23, 2025
    The Hub

    Apparently, comparing someone’s writing to AI is now a “classist slur;” and other news.

    By James Folta  July 22, 2025
    Photography

    Flashes of Brilliance: The 19th-Century Innovations That Shaped Modern Photography

    By Anika Burgess  July 17, 2025
    The Hub

    The definitive ranking of reading technologies.

    By James Folta  July 15, 2025
    Language

    Algorithm On Fleek: How TikTok is Transforming the English Language

    Adam Aleksic Explores the Evolution of Popular Vernacular, From the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era

    By Adam Aleksic  July 15, 2025
    The Hub

    Why architecture is like literature: On the Shanghai city block that went for a walk.

    By James Folta  July 11, 2025
    The Hub

    The case against Substack. (ICYMI)

    By Brittany Allen  July 10, 2025
    The Hub

    Did Anthropic AI steal your book? You can sign up for updates on the class action suit.

    By James Folta  August 27, 2025
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