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Short fictions that read like philosophy disguised as detective stories and fake scholarship: an infinite library containing every possible book, a man who rewrites Don Quixote word for word and produces a different work, a memory that forgets nothing. Borges does in ten pages what most novelists can't in five hundred, and much of postmodern fiction descends from this slim book.
January 12, 2026
Dan Carlin's Alexander the Great series reaches its third installment, Quanta reports on weakening dark energy, and a Philosophize This! episode on Dostoevsky's demons.
July 13, 2026
Scott Alexander's team publishes its plan for AI going well, Joel Mokyr defends his Nobel thesis, and Ted Gioia argues the Odyssey belongs in the music department.
April 13, 2026
Experimental History on overlooked paths to impact, Dario Amodei's five-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, and Ethan Mollick on what just happened in AI.
