Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal

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New York Weakens School Accountability

A Contrarian View of How Consciousness Evolved

Cops Used AI Surveillance To Detain an Innocent Texas Driver. His Lawsuit Just Got the Program Struck Down.

Upon publication of The Last Samurai, a suicidal Helen DeWitt disappeared. She was, she says, “alienated by intellectual mediocrity”

Second Amendment Roundup: Bruen's Footnote 9 Not a Carve-Out from Text and History

The Legal Fight Over Prediction Markets Heats Up

The Need for Statesmanship

What Hayek Can Teach Us About AI Safety

Book Review of “To Taste: On Cooking and the Good Life” by Scott Samuelson

Odd shapes hidden in dense Amazon rainforest reveal sprawling ancient civilization

When Making a Statutory Argument, It Helps To Read the Statute

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Today in Supreme Court History: September 27, 1787

Anthony Fauci’s Diary Reveals a Human at the Helm

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Data Centers and Their Discontents

Music Teacher's Defamation Lawsuit Against StopAntisemitism Thrown Out

Trauma Is Apparently Contagious

A Blow‑by‑Blow Account of What Would Happen If the Yellowstone Supervolcano Erupted Now