Editor-in-chief Heather Shayne Blakeslee on “The Revenge of the Humanities”: I traded biology for philosophy. Both still matter /// Unstill Lives: ICA and the Brandywine Museum of Art invite us to a conversation about how we feed, groom, present, and move our bodies /// Fiction and poetry from Per Olvmyr (“Lost Puppy”), Leen Raats (“Hunger Is Precious”), and Fallon Clark (“What They Carry”) /// Caroline Wiseblood Meline on “Flourishing for Me, But Not for Thee,” a personal reckoning and ethical crisis about animals /// Claire Finkelstein asks in “No Kings” whether the people will protect democracy when those in power do not /// “Summoning the Demon”: notes on Karen Hao’s Empire of AI and Paul Kingsnorth’s Against the Machine, with art by Phaan Howng /// Phaan Howng breaks it down: forget AI, the aliens are already here /// Rev. Chris Micklewright on “Beloved Community”: in a time of great division and upheaval, we must still strive to love our neighbor //
