Seeing Justice in a Grain of Sand (Noema)
by Christine J. Winter
In the tradition that flows from the European Enlightenment, justice is something owed to individual humans, and sometimes human communities. What would it look like to envision every part of the world, including sand, as deserving of just relationships?

What Will Happen to American Science? (Undark)
by C. Brandon Ogbunu
Severe cuts to government and academic research will be felt around the scientific world and the US economy. How will the institutions that keep intellectual progress going react?

What Does it Mean to Choose Death? (Nursing Clio)
by Connie McCormack
It may be unsurprising that some people facing painful, drawn-out deaths would seek medical aid in dying. But it’s extraordinarily difficult to disentangle that kind of individual choice from the social and political context in which it happens.

The Chat-GPT of the Renaissance (Aeon)
by Hannah Katznelson
In sixteenth-century Europe, certain schools of authors and intellectuals created texts composed entirely of pieced-together bits of classical writings. Some observers noted flaws in this method, with striking parallels to critiques of large-language models today.

Making Mary into a God (Sapiens)
by Emma Cieslik
The Bible doesn’t have too much to say about Mary, mother of Jesus, which leaves a lot of room for interpretation. She’s been treated as a powerful saint, an icon of female modesty and patriarchal norms, and—increasingly in some circles today—a god in her own right.

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