The Pentagon Should Buy the Weapons It Needs, Not Tell Companies What to Build

Companies’ Reporting on Race and Sex Could Come to an End

Pentagon Death Numbers

Public Health Needs MAHA

Trenchant but sententious, John Berger could sound like Platonov one moment, the next like Alain de Botton

In search of the northern cassowary

The Newcomer

Are Autonomous Cars More Dangerous Than Uber Drivers?

Mysterious Human Relative Was Bigger Than Previously Thought

Future of giant monkey research facility uncertain, even as sanctuary plan dropped

Frequent Cannabis Use Linked to Higher Morning Stress Hormone Levels

What Humanity Needs To Flourish In The Next Decade

What Satellite Photos of Penguin Poop Tell Us About Earth’s Health

West Africa Needs Its Own Draghi Moment

Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI?

Companies May Soon Be Able to Stop Reporting Employees’ Race

The Secret Effort to Prevent the Revolution

No, we are not post-literate. The reading panic is merely the result of histrionic op-eds that misdiagnose the erosion of literary culture

In 1994, Stanley Fish described deconstruction as dead in the same way that Freudianism is dead. "It is everywhere.” He had a point

For some conservatives, the Great Books are simply an anti-woke bulwark. But the case for them is much grander and more provocative 

Open Thread