A question I often hear as the puzzle’s writer is, simply: “What were you thinking?” It’s a question I find myself asking the ...
Cultivating a healthy sense of mutual obligations running two ways, between society and individual and between individual and society, trumps dismissing society as an illusion.
When we first released Connections in 2023, Wyna Liu, the game’s editor, wrote about her approach to creating the boards. Now, a thousand puzzles later, I asked her some questio ...
Genius Grant” honoree Rebecca Newberger Goldstein talks about her new book on “the mattering instinct,” a concept that’s surprisingly essential to individuals and societies.