A Word for Our Troubled Times

Are Killer Whales Also Cannibals?

Today in Supreme Court History: March 8, 1841

Tony Gilroy on Andor, the Force, and Authoritarianism

Literary Celebrity, Mussolini’s Mouthpiece, AND American Traitor: Who Was Ezra Pound?

In the artillery trenches of the first World War, a German Jew named Franz Rosenzweig began to create an audacious philosophical system

The 'Fairness' Law That Could Raise Grocery Prices for New Yorkers

Hegseth Iran Presser Cold Open – SNL

The Fugitive Slave Who Wrote to the President

Bumblebees Make Decisions as Efficiently as Humans

Annie Dillard on Unselfconsciousness

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

An Emerson for our times? Terry Tempest Williams’s “epic documentation of the Glorians” is full of celestial beings and desert miracles

The Only Option for Troubled Teens

Supermassive Black Hole Sagittarius A* May Have Once Shone 10,000 Times Brighter Than Today

Disappearing ‘planet’ reveals a solar system’s turbulent times

Times Higher Education ranks MIT No. 1 in arts and humanities, business and economics, and social sciences for 2026

Troubled Logic in the School-Naming Wars

Juvenile Detention Is Increasingly the Only Option for Troubled Teens

Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower: Rilke’s Timeless Spell for Living Through Difficult Times

“Revolution” initially signaled destruction. Why did the word take on a more optimistic tenor?

A Lighthouse for Dark Times