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3 Quarks Dailyby Richard Farr27d ago
by Richard Farr The past few days, I’ve been unable to get away from the sense that perhaps there’s something wrong with me.
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top 94%The Need For Roots? - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Martin Butler28d ago
by Martin Butler Rootedness, says Simone Weil, …is perhaps the most important and least known human spiritual need. It is one of the hardest to define.
The Art of Holding Things Together by Holding Them Apart - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby River Lerner28d ago
A collage essay by River Lerner A dam and a corset share a certain poetry. The opposing forces along their walls grant function: not only to contain or boundary, but to harness difference.
The State and Its Workers: China’s class politics after 1989 - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Robin Varghese28d ago
Yueran Zhang in Phenomenal World: In April 1989, a series of explosive pro-democracy movements erupted across China. These movements and their political fate remain poorly understood today.
Who Will Pay - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Robin Varghese28d ago
Wolfgang Streeck in Sidecar: What does it mean to say we are in a ‘polycrisis’? Under an increasingly undemocratic capitalism, the countries of the rich world all confront a similar bundle of...
A Painless Wealth Tax - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Jerry Cayford29d ago
by Jerry Cayford The wealth tax was reintroduced a few months ago. Sponsors of the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act are leading progressive Democrats Elizabeth Warren, Pramila Jayapal, and Brendan Boyle.
Beauty And No-Thingness - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Mark DeLong29d ago
by Mark R. DeLong A few years ago I shared a draft of a sonnet sequence with a poet from the Northwest I had followed for a while.
A Reduction of the Seraglio - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Rafaël Newman11 Sept 2026
by Rafaël Newman Not quite 25 years ago, on September 15, 2001, I took my six-year-old daughter to the opera.
Memory is the Original Unreliable Narrator - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Priya Malhotra11 Sept 2026
by Priya Malhotra Mira remembers her third birthday party as a scene of almost extravagant happiness.
Lessons From Singapore: The Long Road To Water Independence - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Eric Feigenbaum11 Sept 2026
by Eric Feigenbaum As a child of Southern California, I knew the importance of water conservation from a young age.
Hyena Ethics: When Harming Others Feels Righteous and Pleasing - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Daniel Gauss10 Sept 2026
by Daniel Gauss Metaphorically, if hippo ethics is the impulse to respond to suffering with compassion, hyena ethics is the impulse to enjoy, justify or morally authorize suffering.
A List of Things I Was Hoping To Do Before Summer Ended And Now It’s Too Late - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Akim Reinhardt10 Sept 2026
by Akim Reinhardt Finish the book manuscript Repair that crack in the upstairs hallway wall Go for a swim Get an oil change for the car Take a trip to Hudson, Ohio Shave down to just a moustache...
Harvard Wins A Round Against Trump - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Charles Siegel9 Sept 2026
by Charles Siegel In one of my first columns for 3 Quarks Daily, Don’t Deport Protesters, or Defund Universities, in My Name, I lamented the Trump administration’s efforts to, in its own words...
The Virtuous Skill of Complaining - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Marie Snyder9 Sept 2026
by Marie Snyder I’ve been a complainer since childhood. From the outside, people might suggest it’s a miserable disposition that’s neither useful nor pleasant, but, from the inside, I was just...
Jefferson Expresses His Mind (On Slavery) - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Michael Liss8 Sept 2026
by Michael Liss My Jefferson is a giant, but a giant trammeled in a net, and obliged (he thought) to keep repairing and strengthening the coils of that net.
A Catechism of Unknown Voices - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby David Winner and Angela Starita8 Sept 2026
by Angela Starita The state of the world, it’s understood, has led to poor sleep habits and hours of doom scrolling.
The future of the Firewall - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Jeroen Bouterse7 Sept 2026
by Jeroen Bouterse The Brandmauer – the political ‘firewall’ against the German far-right party Alternative für Deutschland – is under duress.
How Facts Are Made - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby W. Alex Foxworthy7 Sept 2026
by W. Alex Foxworthy Recently, following an assignment that required AI use, a student asked me whether it was true that every question she asks a chatbot uses up a whole bottle of water.
Domination/Subordination Dynamics: Five Foundational Books Challenging Illegitimate Authority - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Robert Jensen6 Sept 2026
Many of the books that shaped my work as a professor, author, and activist came into my life during my first two years of graduate school (1988-90), the most exciting period of concentrated...
Check Your Head - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Jim Hanas4 Sept 2026
by Jim Hanas When I interviewed the author George Saunders years ago, he told me that his work was an attempt “to figure out a way that the spiritual would not be full of shit.” A tall order in an...