There Are Three Types of AI Users
by David Brooks
When technology makes thinking effortless, what happens to the person who no longer wants to try?
0:00 / 22:25 · Narrator Charon
Daily edition
2026-06-28
Today's Crosscut
Autonomy of Truth
Putting every government scientist under a single leader’s thumb or treating art and faith as mere numbers on a spreadsheet threatens the freedom to find truth and meaning outside a politician's reach.
An Ascendant Constitutional Theory is a Threat to American Science × The God Dimension
0:00 / 37:23 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Future-gazing →
Behind the news →
“Dear Syria … ”
by Imani Radney
What happens when a country stops being a cause and starts being a home again?
0:00 / 32:15 · Narrator Sulafat
What Happens When the Country Loses a General
by Mark Hertling
If it takes thirty years to grow a general, what is lost when that experience disappears overnight?
0:00 / 12:22 · Narrator Algieba
Afghanistan’s Women: Erased
by Natasha Matloob and Yummna Hina Khan
How does a girl plan for a future that her own government is working to erase?
0:00 / 8:06 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
For the curious →
Struggling with Creative Work Doesn’t Mean You’re Failing
by Chris Smith
Why is the difficulty of making something new so easily mistaken for failure?
0:00 / 11:13 · Narrator Rasalgethi
Smart escape →
Techno Tourism in Detroit – What Do Visitors Owe the City That Created the Music?
by Carla Vecchiola, Lecturer in History, University of Michigan-Dearborn
If you keep returning to a city for its music, what do you actually owe the locals?
0:00 / 10:38 · Narrator Gacrux