Janet Malcolm is remembered for the clarity of her vision, and what she saw most acutely was our blindness. “The phenomenon of transference — how we all invent each other according to early blueprints—was Freud’s most original and radical discovery,” she writes in the opening pages of Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (1980). “The idea of […]

Time magazine wants you to believe scientists have brought dire wolves back from the dead. Popularized by the HBO series Game of Thrones, dire wolves are the larger, whiter cousins of the modern-day gray wolves. They once roamed North and South America from approximately 150,000 to 10,000 years ago. According to Beth Shapiro, chief science […]

Liberal activist Kyle McDaniel might be an ideologue, a thief, and a cad, but give him this: He’s no hypocrite. McDaniel’s former employer has sued him for embezzling company funds and spending them on personal indulgences including strip clubs. But this melds pretty well his record in politics. When McDaniel was sworn in for his […]

Someone missed the space travel invite, and she doesn’t seem happy about it. Actress Olivia Munn recently ripped into the all-female crew set to take an 11-minute flight through the Earth’s atmosphere on Monday in a Blue Origin rocket. “There’s a lot of people who can’t even afford eggs,” Munn complained on TODAY with Jenna […]