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From Amish Country to Slab City, these are the places where Americans reject the mainstream.
I’ve lived in a converted van for six years. The freedom is real — but so are the trade-offs people rarely talk about.
How a culture of independence gave rise to a philosophy of self-reliance, solitude, and inner authority.
Trying to solve one’s existential dread by finding a singular purpose is a game won only by not playing.
A writer’s search for an affordable home leads to the desert — and a community building a different kind of American dream.
With the U.S. stepping away from international organizations en masse, the groups are being forced to find a new balance.
From Gilded Age space dreams to AI’s cosmic endgame, fiction reveals how the drive to shed obligations to others can escalate.
A conversation with the Hardcore History host on executive power, political independents, and how America drifted into partisan dysfunction.
A nostalgia-fueled real-world renaissance is underway, led by young adults striving to counter the cultural pessimism and division that pervades much of online life.
This carriage maker didn’t get wiped out by the automobile. Instead, it became one of the most successful car businesses in European history.
A conversation with Richard Haass about reorienting the U.S. toward long-term thinking and reinstating global stability into the 22nd century.
The ambiguity of Bartleby shows that opting out can be a form of resistance, retreat, or something harder to judge.
Philosopher Gert Biesta on the real reason we should be wary of AI in education.
The printing press gave us objective truth. Social media made truth tribal again. AI could make it something else entirely.
The LIGO facilities in the U.S. are the most sensitive gravitational wave detectors in the world. Their future remains uncertain.
With nearly 400 black hole events from gravitational waves, we can begin to infer their origins. At least two different populations emerge.
The history of atoms in the Universe is our own history: without them, there would be no us. So how do we piece their cosmic story together?
The movie gestures at one of humanity's biggest questions yet chooses to look away, writes Big Think producer Clark Frankel.
A gifted paperback sends me down a rabbit hole to discover whether how we read is just as important as what we read.
For all we know, the cosmos could truly be infinite in scale. But the observable part of our Universe? It's finite, and its size is known.