What Is the Good Life?
The philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan doesn’t just want to teach her students about virtue; she wants to make them better human beings.
The philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan doesn’t just want to teach her students about virtue; she wants to make them better human beings.
A poem
AI personal assistants are now acting on people’s behalf in the real world—and all sorts of strange things are going wrong.
It’s not just about protection. It’s about living a bigger life.
How an ancient survivor of the unsurvivable became a triumph of the human spirit in a divided world.
Forty-four years ago, a conservative legal convention offered disaffected students an identity—and hope.
States can’t afford these cuts.
"By reaching beyond the brain... we are able to focus more intently, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively — to entertain ideas that would be literally unthinkable by the brain alone."
The White House held a summer contest to see who could appear in the most congressional districts and states with competitive midterm elections.
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If you want to hear someone complain, one of your best bets is to ask one of your single friends what the dating landscape is like right now. You’ll hear tales of first dates that lead nowhere, conversations that feel like they were ripped from a social media feed, and more and more people resigning […]
“In the gut, / In the mouth, / In the irreducible / ‘Bile’ humor.”
The author discusses her story “Lost Child.”
The emergence of Germany’s far right as a political force represents an old dilemma.
A new book captures the hard-headed and hearty few who have kept the movement alive.
It almost returned to Kit then—what this place was, and who was waiting for them inside.
The Costume Institute’s decision to scrap its controversial exhibition for the British fashion designer is a reminder that a few checks on power still exist.
“Now the air / is darker; my garden plots are empty.”
Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what’s lost when polemic takes the place of history.
The author reads her story from the September 21, 2026, issue of the magazine.
Hi readers! Shayla Love here, science journalist and longtime fan of Your Mileage May Vary. I’m honored to be subbing for Sigal Samuel while she’s out on parental leave. I’m diving into your questions as a way to help understand human nature and our choices through multiple lenses: philosophical, psychological, and beyond. Please send in any emotional, […]