The Water Dipper

Maya Sulkin talks to some influencers and wannabe influencers about the nature of work.

Maureen Swinger goes to an Oliver Anthony concert and describes his efforts to repair broken places and subvert the structures of the celebrity machine.

Antonio Spadaro responds to plans to build a bridge across the Strait of Messina.

Tara Couture writes about the mysterious relation between simple joys and hard work.

The details of the dissolution of the Honors College at Tulsa continue to be quite discouraging.

Charles Eisenstein lays out some initial policy proposals that could help farmers stay solvent while transitioning to more regenerative agricultural practices.

Christine Rosen pens a biting response to Katherine Boyle’s rosy picture of techno-families.

Piers Gelly describes how students responded when he invited AI into their classroom.

Sally Thomas remembers the wry and wonderful formalist poet Jane Greer.

Grace Russo isn’t impressed with her alma mater’s AI assistant.

Jen Pollock Michel describes what she’s learned while caring for her aging mother.

“Food Is Not Magic.” Garth Brown probes the oddities that ensue when people conscript food into an ideological project: “Contradictions and superficiality do not discredit the claim that the modern food system…