Philosophers are constitutively irritating: this is both their great power and their greatest weakness. Imagine the kind of person that gets stuck, for decades, in the “why?” phase through which ...

Socrates, far from being a mere irritant, is the most honest man around: as the Delphic oracle suggested, what makes him wise is his awareness of his own ignorance. He is, Callard writes ...

Paul McCartney owns a vast collection of cars, each with its own fascinating story, but only one of them became part of the ...

Term. I hope the first  two weeks weren’t too hard and that the last week goes off without a hitch. Welcomes and wishes aside ...

This is the season of anxiety — and for the Naturalist, high anxiety. But before I tell this week’s tale, let me assure ...

By Loren Kopff • @LorenKopff on X• January 9, 2025 It was just a matter of time before the little brother of the City of Cerritos would finally come out on top of the big brother in high school ...

How French modernists from Proust to Mallarmé were alarmed and inspired by the voracious dynamism of the newspaper world ...

The LA fireball is the new normal—a new genre of urban fire that requires novel thinking and next-practice responses to ...

Bob Dylan is back in the news again. A countercultural hero to people who grew up some five decades ago, yet also, perhaps not surprisingly, given his ...

Anand Manikutty was born in Madurai, grew up in India and moved to the United States after his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He has pursued ...