The World Cup vs. the Extremists

You Can Root for Iran at the World Cup Without Rooting for the Iranian Regime

Dinosaurs, crocodilo-pythons, and other monsters populated the “lost world” novels that thrived between the 1880s and 1920s

The World Must Adopt an Electrification Roadmap

What the Iran War Taught the World About Food Security

Boston Is Temporarily Legalizing Outdoor Drinking for the World Cup. Why Not Make It Permanent?

British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism

My Grandfather's Account of the Early Days of Germany's Attack on the Soviet Union in World War II

Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable but it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself

Open Thread

Meet the leader of the Department of Biology’s all-important “kitchen”

Dwight Macdonald opposed World War II, denounced the atom bomb, and never found an ideological home. Was he right?

England Fans Warned Not To Chant 'Keir Starmer's a Wanker' at World Cup

Americans Still Believe in the Founding—and Want Schools To Teach Capitalism

What killed the masquerade ball: the rise of evangelical moral values or an increasing affordability, which rendered it less appealing to the aristocracy?

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

Weschler on Hockney

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

Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go

Open Thread

Today in Supreme Court History: June 19, 1992