Republicans Fumble Away Fiscal Conservatism in Stadium Subsidy Projects

Self-organizing “pencil beam” laser could help scientists design brain-targeted therapies

Today in Supreme Court History: April 25, 1938

Open Thread

The New York art critic Jerry Saltz recently unearthed 40,000 slides: Here’s what the art world of the 1990s looked like

The Force and the Flower: Poet and Potter M.C. Richards on Creativity

A faster way to estimate AI power consumption

Guitar Hero

Michael Harrison (1958 – 2026) Contemporary Classical Composer

Grace Against Gravity and the Physics of Vulnerability: How Birds Fly and Why They Flock in a V Formation

Sunday Poem

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

“The American novel offers the dream of escape: away from civilization and into the forest, away from marriage and onto the sea, away from history and back to boyhood”

How Trump Killed Conservatism

John Aubrey, born 400 years ago, lived a prodigiously productive literary life, starting innumerable projects and finishing just a few

Why Trump Thinks He Can Walk Away From the Strait of Hormuz

Conservatism and the Korean War

Do Republicans Want To Control Elections?

The Virginia Gerrymander Disenfranchises Republicans

An English professor burns the midnight oil talking to Microsoft Copilot about Shakespeare, Dickinson, Hawthorne, and a play he’s been working on—and comes away deeply impressed by its literary insights

The Future of Intellectual Conservatism

Led by Republicans, Americans' Support for NATO Fades