250 Years Later, The Wealth of Nations Still Has Lessons To Offer the Political Class

1,000 years of Japanese swords

By Dropping Her Criminal Probe of Jerome Powell, Jeanine Pirro Confirms Its Political Motivation

The Political Influence of Zero-Sum Thinking

Kon-Tiki Set Sail 79 Years Ago Today

The Best Lack All Conviction: Russell’s Other Paradox

Brickbat: Partners in Crime

OpenAI President Greg Brockman on GPT-5.5 “Spud”

After Machiavelli

The Science of Spooky Sounds

With a swipe of a magnet, microscopic “magno-bots” perform complex maneuvers

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

The Federal Government Was Told To Make a List of Everything It Funds. 15 Years Later, There Still Isn't One.

The Social Wealth of Nations

Use of Still from "Girls Do Porn" Video to Criticize Later Employer of Alleged Participant Is Fair Use, not Copyright Infringement

George Scialabba is no fan of political theory: “Imagination, sympathy, solidarity — by whatever name: this is the true engine of political progress”

OpenAI Proposes A ‘Social Contract’ For The Intelligence Age: It fills the vacuum left by an unimaginative political class

The Samuel Alito Nomination -- Twenty Years Later

The Oracle of Bacon: Thirty Years Later

Freud died almost 90 years ago. His reputation has gone up and down. Is the jury really still out as to whether psychoanalysis works?

In 2002, the college essay was declared dead. More than three years and hundreds of billions of dollars later, the college essay lives

How Capitalism Lost the Working Class