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Fusionism in the Twenty-First Century

Today in Supreme Court History: October 11, 1972

Eurosclerosis or US Decline?

All the Things You’re Not Allowed to Say In Texas

Poem by Jim Culleny

Inside the Trump Administration's War on The Hague

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Economists Robert E. Hall PhD ’67 and Michael Woodford PhD ’83 share Nobel prize

Sixth Circuit Affirms Universal Injunction Against Tennessee "Abortion Trafficking" Law that Does Not Reach Plaintiffs' Conduct

The Cost of Not Building Data Centers

Woodworking, building computers, photography — why is so much of Francis Fukuyama’s memoir concerned with his hobbies?

Smuggling literature behind the Iron Curtain took ingenuity. Think microscopic copies of Solzhenitsyn nestled in a baby’s diaper

The Simple Truth Behind Jane Doe’s Story

Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Open Thread

Sleeping Beauties: David Byrne on Why Transformative Ideas Fall Dormant and How They Awaken to Change the World

Nobel Prize honors researchers who solved chemistry’s asymmetry mystery

The Journalists’ Revolt Against AI Scraping

‘The anti-Fauci’? Lab-leak proponent listed in NIH directory but denies being hired