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Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise is the medieval world's complete map of sin, love, politics and God, written in a vernacular Italian he helped make a literary language. Read it for the people (Francesca, Ulysses, Ugolino) as much as the theology; the Inferno hooks you, but the Paradiso is where the ambition shows.
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.
