MacIntyre’s Common Good

Good Bones

Steven Pinker on Why Authoritarians Fear Common Knowledge

Study: Peptides can form well-defined structures in harsh, Venus-like conditions

World’s biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

‘Robot Olympics’ reveal humanoids’ rapid progress — and flaws

Gulfstream IV makes its long-awaited return to Lincoln Laboratory

Is This the Supreme Court's Next Sports Betting Case?

Hard Lessons for Europe From the Ceuta Crisis

The World’s Silent Majority for International Cooperation

Brain stimulation takes aim at improving women’s health

Ode to a Good Pen: A Poem About Writing the Book of Love, Read by Nick Cave

Why Authoritarians Fear Common Knowledge

Not-Writing

Siegfried Kracauer believed films could foretell political disaster. What does his approach make of today’s cinema?

“As intellectually undistinguished as it is possible to be”: F.R. Leavis’s torching of C.P. Snow brought passion back into cultural life

Fastest known star could reveal the spin of our galaxy’s giant black hole

Thursday Poem

What Might Happen to Trump’s Ill-Gotten Gains

NASA abandons orbit-boosting rescue mission for space observatory

Soviet censors mangled Vasily Grossman's wartime journalism. The original copy reveals a palimpsest of what propaganda demanded