Oscar Wilde said there is only good art and bad art — the artist's morality is beside the point. But it's not that simple 

Why Argentina’s AI corporations are (probably) a good idea

The Microfinance Debate Is Missing the Point

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

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Is there life after death? The psychiatrist Ian Stevenson spent his life collecting evidence. What he found was suggestive, but unprovable

Why U.K. Socialism Could Soon Be America's Problem

Federal Court Strikes Down Immigration-Related Subpoenas of Minnesota Officials on Anti-Commandeering Grounds

Why Tejal Patwardhan stopped underestimating the AI models

The Tech Companies That Just Need the Money

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

The University As We Know It Is Finished, and That’s a Good Thing

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

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

Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island

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

Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go

America's Founders Blended Liberalism and Religion

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Today in Supreme Court History: June 19, 1992