Tony Is an Anthony Bourdain Origin Story

History is the story of corrupt elites and the virtuous activists who oppose them. Or so it was, formulaically, for Howard Zinn

The Greatest Short Story Writers of All Time

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

Open Thread

ABC's First Amendment Lawsuit Against FCC

Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island

MDBs Are Becoming a New Global Safe Asset

The “Kerry Cow” Wasn’t a Cow at All—And It Upends Stone Age Irish History

You’re Not a Universal Mosquito Magnet

Machine learning of artistic fingerprints in jazz

What Anthony Fauci's Diary Reveals About COVID

Anthony Fauci’s Diary Reveals a Human at the Helm

Trump's Threats To Yank Broadcast Licenses Are Part of a Speech-Chilling Intimidation Campaign

OpenAI says its AI model ‘went rogue’: What do we know?

DOGE Claimed $110 Billion in Spending Cuts That Couldn't Be Verified, Audit Finds

Female Treefrogs Get Overwhelmed by Too Many Noisy Male Suitors

New York’s Data Center Moratorium is a Huge Mistake

What does Emily Wilson make of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey? It’s an “audiovisual spectacle” with little to no “narrative and emotional depth”

Sweden Doesn’t Mandate Childcare Ratios. Why Does America?

“I’m Just Having a Blast in My Feminine Era.”