AI is the Latest and Best-Financed Cult to Emerge from California

Justice Department Finds 'Unbroken Pattern' of Sexual Abuse in Two California Women's Prisons

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No One Knows How Whale Sharks Give Birth—But This Neonatal Shark Discovery Provides Some Clues

Who is the greatest short story writer of all time? According to one data cruncher, it’s not Chekhov or Barthelme, but Joyce Carol Oates

How to Lose a Trade War

The Loveliness of Letting Go: An Illustrated Ode to Life’s Lasts

Video of My Keynote Speech at the Annual Libertarian Futurist Society Prometheus Award Ceremony

The Dollar's Outer Defenses Have Been Breached

How the Ancient Greeks Interpreted Their Dreams

The Black Robin and the Power of Tenacious Tenderness: How a Single Mother Brought an Entire Species Back from the Brink of Extinction

New in Civitas: Curtail the Cult of Judicial Celebrity

NIH plan to keep peer-review scores for grants secret draws concern

Book publishing is awash in AI scandals. As one agent puts it, AI slop has gotten so bad it makes Fifty Shades of Grey look like Tolstoy

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TikTok Discovered a Blind, Pale, Worm-Like Fish

If we couldn’t make generalisations, we would be paralysed by the world’s complexity. Does that ever excuse stereotyping?

A Biological Need To Steal?

Can America Survive Its Political Divide?

How Coffee Affects Your Sex Hormone Levels

In praise of zealotry