“On the Mark” by Florence Hazrat – a fascinating history of punctuation

Today in Supreme Court History: July 8, 1941

Today in Supreme Court History: July 6, 1835

Today in Supreme Court History: July 7, 1893

Fowler dismissed them as the mark of an amateur; Adorno called them soundless cymbal-crashing. How do you feel about exclamation points?

Michael Harrington’s Dilemmas

The Power of a Thin Skin

Ana Miljački named head of the Department of Architecture

Iran, Not Trump, Is in Control of This War

Nature and Creativity: The Science of “Soft Fascination” and How the Natural World Resets the Brain

Naomi Kanakia has two questions about n+1: How did it used to publish so much consistently amazing work? Why did it get so much worse?  

Today in Supreme Court History: July 3, 1941

Hannibal, Missouri is a company town, and the local industry is Mark Twain. "The perfume of manufactured nostalgia hangs heavy in the air"

Today in Supreme Court History: July 5, 1867

Today in Supreme Court History: July 4, 1776

Lerna Ekmekcioglu named head of MIT's History Section

What Would Mark Twain Think of America at 250?

The Strange History of the Word <em>Equal</em>

It Wasn’t Just the Founders

Religious rites, rock concerts, and other transcendent moments stem from directing our attention to “something more than human”

America the Great