QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2026-27

What is this rock?

England Fans Warned Not To Chant 'Keir Starmer's a Wanker' at World Cup

The Fed Has Been Honest and Stupid

All the Sad Hawks

MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing builds momentum

Review of “Flamboyance” by Jack Parlett – a serious study of the spectacular

Debate over whether David Foster Wallace was a virtuosic bully or a genius with a heart of gold has eclipsed consideration of his work

Robocalls Are Annoying. Eroding Privacy Is Not the Right Way To Stop Them.

No, Trump Isn't 'Paying' Iran $24 Billion To End the War

Higher-Education Reform Is Under Threat at UNC Chapel Hill

"Eight Conspirators … Threatened University of Michigan Officials, Businesses, and the Jewish Federation"

Elon Musk Becomes the World's First Trillionaire. Is That Such a Bad Thing?

Canada’s Great Recalibration

My Descent Into Mah-Jongg

Open Thread

“After all the testing and lotteries and nail-biting, this is it?” Even New York parents are growing tired of gifted and talented programs

Children’s literature used to get reviewed in serious outlets. That’s stopped — and has that turned the genre to “crud”?

Is a new academic report with a dry title a “diabolically evil” plot to undermine the humanities? Or will it save them?  

Today in Supreme Court History: June 15, 1804

The Declaration of the Enslaved