Readings

Belgium's decision to grant euthanasia to a prisoner who claims he's beyond rehabilitation may seem like a win-win, but making choices in prison isn't like making choices anywhere else.

Catastrophe, capitalism, and unlikely optimism in Ben Lerner’s 10:04 and Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything.

Few people would just give their beloved pet away. But for the right price? Keep talking.

Inoculations have always been met with fear. But rewrite the metaphors associated with vaccination, Eula Biss’s On Immunity says, and people may realize they’re not about corruption, but community.

Does anonymity lead to incivility—or the opposite? Consider examples from Alfred Hermida's Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why It Matters.

In the 1990s investigative reporter Gary Webb broke the story linking the CIA with drug traffickers. Then his own fellow journalists effectively ruined him. Enter Hollywood.

Much of the 20th century was spent trying to fix the problems of the city by destroying it, but the 21st century will be an urban one. It was a long, ugly fight, and the city has won.

"Poems are a record of failure," says the poet Ben Lerner—art, too, by extension. But does that argument apply to the stranger corners of the Internet?

Plenty of companies are feeding data to computers in the hopes of replicating human behavior, but how close can machines truly get if all they have to work on is the information we offer?