Democracy, Autocracy, or Something Else?

MFA programs teach pacing, structure, rhythm. It can not teach a writer to have something worth saying

"This Direct Monetization of Prior Government Service Is Beyond the Pale"

Culture clash

The Ceuta Crisis Is About More Than Migration

As AI eats the internet, we’re witnessing the end of the messy, effortful, contestable business of finding things out

How diplomats see the world

The great arc

Sasquatch science

Trump Should Need a Warrant to See Your Phone

Life Originated Twice on Earth

This Ichthyosaur Chomped a Pterosaur—Then Got Chomped by Something Bigger

How to Hold the Darkness: Notes on Living Through Uncertainty

Journal of Free Speech Law: "Jawboning as Collaborative Governance," by Daniel Browning

Blame Fauci, Yes—But Blame China Most of All 

David Cole's Qualified Defense of the Supreme Court

Alain de Botton On Love, Perversion And Suffering

Court Upholds Stop-Posting-About-Your-Ex-Order, Based on Past Threats

Walt Whitman's American Vistas

'AI Kill Switch Act' Won't Stop Rogue AI, but It Will Slow Down Innovation

What Iranian Dissidents Can Learn About Regime Change From the Mistakes of 1979