• “5 Years of Zohran Mamdani Interviews Before He Got Famous.” (The Indypendent)

• The common sense of John Searle. (First Things)

• A history and theory of progress and regression. (Boston Review)

• The “surprisingly complex legal identity” of the medieval fetus. (Medievalists)

• “Discussion of the 1619 Project still matters because the project contributed to a new wave of US exceptionalism, reinforcing in new ways an old narrative.” (Aeon)

• Meet Marion Mahony, Frank Lloyd Wright’s first employee and earliest influence. (Dwell)

• The future of Catholic traditionalism. (Commonweal)

• “One tubercular young man was sent to the Adirondack village with the following prescription: ‘Keep up your courage. Fresh air—fresh eggs—and read Robert Louis Stevenson.’ Many found in Stevenson’s work, particularly his essays, ‘hope to live and courage to die.’” (Literary Hub)

• This week in obituaries: Dick Cheney, Kim Yong Nam, Mia Hamant, Dominik Duka, Lee Tamahori, Pauline Collins, James Watson, Juan Ponce Enrile, Diane Ladd, John Cleary, Sally Kirkland, Lenny Wilkens, Cleto Escobedo III, Tatsuya Nakadai, Stanley Chelsey, Paul Ignatius, Victor Conte, and George Banks.