I saw a preview for Whalefall, in which a young man searching for his father’s remains gets swallowed by a sperm whale.
Jonah’s story puts a familiar political grievance inside the fish: the conviction that mercy has been wasted whenever it reaches the wrong people. Resentment toward another people can become a powerful bond among our own...
Madeline de Figueiredo used AI to recreate her late husband Eli’s voice and read his last email aloud. For a moment, the words seemed to have their speaker back. Later, the system offered advice so unlike him that she ended the experiment.
It was late in the Barr household when Andy poured a generous bourbon over one of those expensive spheres of ice. He liked his water artisanal and his regulations optional.
Robert Mueller died on March 20, 2026. The next day, TЯ★MP posted on Truth Social: “Good, I’m glad he’s dead.”
In his March 25 conversation with James Webb, Tucker Carlson offered a thought worth keeping: “there’s a certain reverence in death that’s required if you’re going to have reverence for life.”
“I’m trying to understand what the disincentive is from turning the Oval Office into … the seat of criminal activity in this country.”
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked that question during oral arguments in Trump v. United States on April 25, 2024.
