The Liberal Gentleman

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The Key to Multilingualism Lies in the Ears, Not the Mouth

Trump’s Misguided War Against Effective Altruism

No Immunity for Judge Who Locked Children in Holding Cells in Custody Case

Will Pennsylvania's Vape Ban Create More Cigarette Smokers?

Deskilling the body

Code Games 2.0

Helion CEO David Kirtley on why fusion finally works

Probability Theory Pioneer Mark Kac on the Unpredictability of Creativity and the Two Types of Geniuses

New Anthropic policy cracks down on cruelty to Claude

Mencken is still relevant, but which Mencken? There were many — some confounding, some repellent, others bracing and hilarious 

Smuggling literature behind the Iron Curtain took ingenuity. Think microscopic copies of Solzhenitsyn nestled in a baby’s diaper

Robert Frost was both a skeptical believer and a believing skeptic. Yet his letters reveal a soul closer to despair

Brendan Carr's Vendetta Against ABC Conflates the 'Public Interest' With Trump's Personal Grievances

Today in Supreme Court History: October 11, 1972

What I Saw at New York’s Anti-Israel October 7 Rallies

How to Lose a Trade War

Open Thread

Trump Says He Wants Drones and Snipers in 250-Foot Triumphal Arch, Complicating His Controversial Proposal

Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90