Lessons From Singapore: Globalism, China and Mutually Assured Disruption

Thirty-seven paintings, 15 children, 43 years, and almost no paper trail: Vermeer is known to us only through crumbs and scraps

Open Thread

A better way to model the behavior of metal alloys

Elon Musk and the Glory of Liberal Democracy

Paracelsus & the Womb of Being

How the brain builds sentences, neuron by neuron

A Supreme Court Decision Restricting Appeal Waivers Underlines the Injustice of Coercive Plea Bargaining

Today in Supreme Court History: June 20, 1837

Plaintiff Can't Litigate Claim That "Security Clearance Process" Was Used "as a Pretextual Weapon to Execute an Ideological Purge"

Weschler on Hockney

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Toni Morrison believed that racial blackness and whiteness and redness — potent though they may be — are just that: stories 

Open Thread

MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing builds momentum

The Democratic Socialists of America Just Adopted a Radical New Platform

Open Thread

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

A 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer with all-to-all connectivity

Albany Wants to Make New Yorkers Pay More for Their Medications

London Falling