The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother

Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable but it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself

Open Thread

Meet the leader of the Department of Biology’s all-important “kitchen”

Is there life after death? The psychiatrist Ian Stevenson spent his life collecting evidence. What he found was suggestive, but unprovable

Why U.K. Socialism Could Soon Be America's Problem

Federal Court Strikes Down Immigration-Related Subpoenas of Minnesota Officials on Anti-Commandeering Grounds

Buying Beer Is Both Legal and Illegal on Sunday Nights in Minnesota

Why Tejal Patwardhan stopped underestimating the AI models

Open Thread

Secret Emails Reveal Sketchy Tactics in California Public Health's Tobacco Ban 'Endgame'

The University As We Know It Is Finished, and That’s a Good Thing

Pick Your YIMBY

Brickbat: In Your Own Words

Could AI tell you where you left your keys?

Beijing Is Watching Your Chatbot Girlfriend

Americans Still Believe in the Founding—and Want Schools To Teach Capitalism

What killed the masquerade ball: the rise of evangelical moral values or an increasing affordability, which rendered it less appealing to the aristocracy?

Dwight Macdonald opposed World War II, denounced the atom bomb, and never found an ideological home. Was he right?

A Supreme Court Decision Restricting Appeal Waivers Underlines the Injustice of Coercive Plea Bargaining

Weschler on Hockney