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by George Eliot
Eliot's portrait of a provincial English town around the 1832 Reform Act, built from interlocking lives (Dorothea's idealistic, disastrous marriage, Lydgate's ambitions sinking into debt) until the town itself becomes the protagonist. The great novel about how ordinary choices compound, and the case for 'unhistoric acts' as the stuff a life is made of.
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.
March 16, 2026
Sean Carroll's Mindscape episode on surveillance, Gwern's writing process revealed, and Martha Nussbaum on why fear is toxic to democracy.
