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The world is lousy with aspiring novelists who will probably never be published. Intelligent Life Magazine offers insight into what keeps them writing.

What can be said of revelatory moments in life whose meaning seems beyond the reach of words? Should anything be said at all? Philosopher Roger Scruton on the ineffable.

Speaker Quinn is most inspired by the idea that individuals can make a difference.

Beyond doing their job well, traditionally marginalized people need to view their differences as assets, not problems, says Speaker Quinn.

New York City Council Speaker and potential candidate for Mayor Christine Quinn came out to another openly gay politician, while riding the subway.

Mayor Bloomberg has brought a diversity of experience to City Hall, says the council speaker. Asked if she’ll be vying for his job in 2013, she simply says she’s focused […]

“Internationally, there are lots of folks who want to come here, but the reality of the lack of immigration reform on the federal level actually makes it harder for companies […]

Hospitality is just one of many industries that could make New York less reliant on Wall Street tax dollars, says Speaker Quinn.

A conversation with the Speaker of the New York City Council.

“Text messagers and computer gamers aren’t alone in the willful misspelling department. RNA molecules do it, too.”

In Senegal, money from Europe represents close to 10% of GDP. The flows of capital generated by migrant workers exceeds the foreign development aid Senegal receives.

“The whole focus on ‘focus’ is…an act of intellectual cowardice — a way to criticize President Obama’s record without explaining what you would have done differently.”

The narrow focus on ‘lifestyle factors’ has implied that when people get cancer, it’s their own fault. Is it time to focus more on environmentally induced cancers?rn

A conversation with the feminist activist.

Prostitution is not empowering for women; it is a symptom of addiction to masculinity and need for domination. “We need to eroticize equality,” says the noted feminist.

It’s not helpful to talk about men and women as if they were fixed and binary entities, says the celebrated feminist. “The purpose of feminism is … to understand that […]

Feminism has proven that women can do men’s jobs, but it hasn’t yet proven that men can do women’s jobs—like nurturing a child. This is both a libel to men […]

Forbes’ Quentin Hardy says the U.S. economy is on track to collapse in twelve years based on analyses of the diminishing rate of returns from private assets.

“What we divulge might seem contradictory or bizarre because the line we refuse to cross is so deeply personal.” Jessa Crispin says privacy concerns are relative.

Can constitutional democracies generate the motivational resources that nourish them and make them durable? The Immanent Frame on the new writings of Jürgen Habermas.

“Train wrecks are said to be attractive. Though I don’t agree when it’s my country that’s both the train and the wall.” The Pulitzer Prize winner at The New Yorker.

The Guardian’s Kevin Gallagher says that by depressing U.S. interest rates, quantitative easing forces developing countries to defend their currencies at crippling cost.

Researchers say talismans work by attaching a hope or wish to a physical object which induces the placebo effect. The objects demonstrate the power of the mind.

In its obsession with online speed, Google has released free software that could make many sites load twice as fast. Technology Review explains how it works.

To watch from afar as the drama of the US mid term elections unfolded as a Brit who has lived in America, likes America and likes Americans, is deeply frustrating. […]

Professor of evolutionary paleobiology at the University of Cambridge, Simon Morris says one of Darwin’s detractors still raises interesting questions about human uniqueness.

Are biotechnology and sustainable agriculture complimentary or contradictory? The Economist moderates an online debate between experts in the field.

In this brief video accompanying their obituary, the New York Times asks Ted Sorenson to discuss his relationship with President Kennedy. It was a relationship without contemporary analog, like Sorenson […]

The female chess champion says that in order to succeed in the world of competitive chess, you have to develop masculine skills like competitiveness and analytic thinking.

“Researchers find that associating an object with anger actually makes people want the object — a kind of motivation that’s normally associated with positive emotions.”