Constantine P. Cavafy: The Incorruptibility of Pleasure

How MIT students are helping to prevent cyberattacks

Patricia Evangelista on journalism

Open Thread

AI agents create virtual playgrounds to help robots get crucial training data

The looting of science fiction

How Does The Supreme Court Caption Cases?

The diffusion pilot

Slush Fund Update!

Russell Kirk’s American Conservatism

The Rise and Fall of the Oxbridge Dons

A baseball-sized sensor can detect chemical threats

Open Thread

Liberalism or communism? with Adam Tooze

MIT-led project opens first climate shelter in Bangladesh

Open Thread

The Unintended Consequences of Genetic Tests

American Loneliness

The French surrealists, stricken by serving in World War I, adopted a new philosophical approach: “vibrant pessimism”

She Came to the U.S. at 4 Months Old. She Had To Self-Deport—Because She Came Here Legally.

How the Rule-Breaking Octopus Is Rewriting the Evolution of Intelligence